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The Power of Video

A Principal's Reflections

Students in Mrs. Tambuscio’s World History class culminated a unit on the Holocaust by applying their historical knowledge to the viewing of survivor testimonies. Students were able to utilize IWitness , which is a computer-based program created by the USC Shoah Foundation’s Institute for Visual History.

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The Evolution of Cooking: A Defining Moment in Human History

Anthropology.net

These hearths typically consist of circular arrangements of stones surrounding ash deposits, often accompanied by burned artifacts or plant remains. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 Homo erectus : The First Cook? link] 2 Wrangham, R. Basic Books. 3 Shahack-Gross, R.,

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OPINION: Can technology save the liberal arts?

The Hechinger Report

The Teagle grant supported course-sharing and online module development at more than 35 institutions and organizations, and engaged more than 180 faculty and staff between 2014 and 2017. Make them a requirement toward a business degree. Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable.

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Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

The Hechinger Report

It’s an artifact of the early childhood system; it’s grown up that way. So if you use both public and private providers, the question becomes: How do you nurture and sustain quality across all those different settings when their resources, missions and histories can be so different?”. It’s getting really tough.”.

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Ancient Iberian Slate Plaques: Early Genealogical Records?

Anthropology.net

Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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Reflections on the “Historicity” of Child Death at Ireland’s Former Mother and Baby Homes

Anthropology News

Instead of that essay, I reflect here on the problematic my response in this anecdote highlights: balancing the patterned resonance of history and the total singularity of each life, in attempts to name and redress harm done at Mother and Baby Institutions (M&BIs) and in ethnographic work. Good material for an essay like this one.