Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In their paper published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1 , the researchers argue that this type of play fulfills an evolutionary need inherited from our ape and early human ancestors. Modern humans, while less adept climbers than other primates, still retain the physical capacity to engage in these activities. 1 Fannin, L.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement. I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

In 2013, GeoCapabilities became an EU funded programme as a 3 year Comenius project (539079-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-COMENIUS-CMP). 135-6 Richard also discusses the need to de/colonise curricula, and that the Humanities have a legacy of ignoring discussions about what was taught and how it was framed.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the heart of northeastern China lies the Shiyu site, a treasure trove of ancient artifacts that has recently rewritten the narrative of human migration. Unearthing Clues to Ancient Migration For decades, the Shiyu site has tantalized archaeologists with its rich deposits, hinting at a long and complex history of human habitation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9 This case study provides valuable lessons on sustainable living and the resilience of human communities. km² of the island were used for rock gardens. 1 Davis, D. DiNapoli, R. Pakarati, G.,

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. He was also known for his political activism, notably as one of the original organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Teachers should document these characteristics through explicit examples that show the subject in action as a powerful and unifying instrument of human thinking. He’s the author of “Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math’s Least-Loved Subject” (2022) and “ How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers ” (2013).

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. (A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). The arrow indicates Coro Trasito cave. Below: Entrance to Coro Trasito cave. (B) The isocotes indicate every 20 cm. DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Barrett, P., Moffat, J., &

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. Prior to that, she was the health and human sciences educator at Purdue Extension office in Clinton County, Indiana.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

As technology becomes cheaper and labor becomes more expensive, profit-maximizing firms invest more in technology to replace human labor. The goal of our study was to determine whether the technology and human labor of different educational levels are complements or substitutes for each other in certain jobs.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Please visit the blog for an in-depth look at the dedicated students who participated in HST 2013 as they reflect upon what they learned.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

Letters, photographs, postcards, journals, and other first-hand accounts add detail, humanity, and relevance to our picture of the past. In addition, when children know about their own family history, they are more resilient and emotionally stable, according to research as reported by Bruce Feiler in 2013 in the New York Times.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Duckworth gave a TED Talk in 2013 explaining how grit—i.e., Since her 2013 TED Talk, Duckworth’s theory of grit has received a lot of attention and discussion, both good and bad. It is a natural human instinct to shy away from mistake-making, from confusion, from challenge,” Duckworth told EdSurge.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. Humans have been doing this since we became a species. But that is actually not news. That is why we survive.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. Humans have been doing this since we became a species. But that is actually not news. That is why we survive.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. In the next post I will explore how genetic technologies are affecting how understand what it means to be human.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. After she took office in 2013, her agency interviewed tribal elders around North Dakota to create a professional development program for teachers on incorporating Native culture into their classrooms. Not from the Census Bureau, not from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Pennsylvania is failing our most vulnerable children, and PA-DHS and PDE [the state departments of human services and education] must work together to fix this.”. Pennsylvania state law guarantees foster children in institutions the right to attend public schools under most circumstances.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. She found the skull of a giant sloth next to early human tools. In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. Surgeon General.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Then in 2013, California adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) , which included the recommendation to teach climate change. More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. They raise cattle.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Alduha Leon wanted to earn a degree in marine science from Savannah State University. When he quit, he joined more than 100,000 students in Georgia who took out federal loans and withdrew from the state’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

That’s in part because the college itself is young, having graduated its first class in 2013, and small, with 617 undergraduates in the last academic year — characteristics freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education. UMR was first among these schools to launch its pilot.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

But by 2013, the number of teachers still employed who worked before the storm had fallen significantly. In a past column , I wrote that the spread of artificial intelligence technology is replacing human teachers with software in such places as the Mississippi Delta.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. They even dressed as aliens in order to ask why they weren’t being treated as human. Recently, Russo had seen a little boy wrapping up some of his school lunch.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The office would also coordinate with other federal agencies, such as the departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, and be an active member of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Related: Long before the coronavirus pandemic, student parents struggled with hunger, homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

percent from 2013-14. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student. Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. California raised school funding by more than 16 percent to $11,420 per student over the two years from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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