Anthropology.net

MAY 6, 2025

In the humid heart of the Yucatán, inside the ceremonial center of Chichén Itzá, a dozen ceramic bowls buried in history have begun to speak again. It was a material culture in miniature: sacred science, encoded in practice, surviving in pigment long after its makers were gone. Getty Research Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. They do not have the necessary funding to offer professional development to boost culturally relevant and responsive teaching. Related: “Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. Complex History of Admixture Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals Authors : Vernot, B., & Akey, J. Journal : Nature , 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history. Fannin cites a 2014 study reporting that young chimpanzees spend significantly more time in the trees than their adult counterparts, a behavior that enhances their climbing abilities. ” The Debate Over Playground Safety: Risks vs.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

I eventually explored these during 21 months of ethnographic research between 2014 and 2019 at Launch and in Cape Town interrogating how students, alumni, families, and educators navigate the politics of aspiration in an antiblack city and marketized schooling landscape. Several of these teachers were alumni, including Mpumelelo.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And there it was: one of American society’s most vexing topics, histories and issues — race —distilled by an outside voice to the purity of a question as simple as “why is the sky blue?” This is both the joy and challenge of teaching international undergraduates a semester-long course called “American Cultures.” Good questions ….

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. That’s horrific enough.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

From Greensboro lunch counters to Tiananmen Square, youth have led significant campaigns for social and political change throughout history. Students are left with an impression of civic life as one of memorizing and adopting mainstream practices presented in history books. It’s the epitome of a teachable moment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. Black history will be added to standards when black teachers are given real chances to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. I started thinking … how hard their lives are, and how much of a difference could be made.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing. Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Explaining why requires some history. In 2014, the national association of EBS license holders sent the FCC a proposal to make a public inventory of available spectrum, and then gradually open it up for applications from school districts and nonprofits. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Each student still takes life sciences, global history, algebra and the other courses New York State requires for graduation. Sidebar: Personalizing school culture with ‘preceptors’. It’s just a different pace.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. Related: As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow. “You

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. I had been taught that my role was to build school culture from the inside-out,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With the exception of a few times in history where it was considered a national priority to bring women into the workforce temporarily, publicly funded child care has remained low on the list of programs receiving federal dollars. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools. Dr. Brian McDonald, superintendent of Pasadena Unified School District from 2014 to 2023, stands in front of Pasadena High School on Monday, May 13, 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. The country as a whole passed that benchmark in 2014.) No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

She grew up in Pacoima, a neighborhood in Los Angeles County where about half of the residents over the age of 25 never finished high school, and 8 percent have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to 2014 census data estimates.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

North Philadelphia’s The LINC High School, set in an area with one of the city’s highest violent crime rates , has faced several obstacles in its short history. For this to work there has to be a culture of care for each other. Projects are really hard, collaboration is really hard,” said Bujak. We can’t ignore it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014. psychology class.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2017

In Arizona , for instance, where districts reported a 29 percent increase from 2013 to 2014 in the number of positions that remained vacant, special education was one of the areas with the highest vacancy rates. Many had histories of trauma and abuse. Special educators serve students with significant learning and behavioral needs.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

I observed various ways of asking for alms in different urban locations for four years (2010–2014) in Guangzhou and talked to people panhandling in the present or the past. In the following, I will show how panhandling adapts to a changing spatial culture and the local state’s attempts to “beautify” the commons.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

When she became principal in August 2014, Barber started the tier system. Another issue is that black students need to have their culture celebrated, which schools run by white females do not do,” he said. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”.

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