Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Science , 2014. DOI : 10.1126/science.1256236

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2013

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

citizenship test, which assesses basic knowledge of American history, according to new survey results released earlier this month by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Officials from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation say these results point to longstanding problems with the way American history is taught in schools. history to be lacking.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 21, 2025

The views, tone and style connected with Tacitism can be found in wide variety of genres, ranging from history to advice-books and from political thought to satire. The dual conferences in Reims and Caen in 2014 laid the foundations for the development of such a synthesis. These in turn create a need for synthesis.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 At the same time, Homo erectus experienced a significant reduction in the size of their chewing teeth, another evolutionary marker indicating a dietary shift towards softer, cooked foods. Homo erectus : The First Cook? link] 2 Wrangham, R.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. As a result we embarked on a journey to delve into how a brandED mindset could help promote, sustain, and amplify the great work taking place every day in schools across the world.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. The author also recommends some movies for students to add to their Netflix queue such as Testament of Youth (2014). I was wrong. The book has a slow burn. I hope it is well-stocked in school libraries.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. And as we continue to uncover more ancient genomes, our understanding of human history will only deepen. Related Research Fu, Q., Meyer, M., & Pääbo, S. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221359110

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

The number of middle school students who are not in an after-school program, but whose parents would enroll them if a program were available, has grown from 4 million in 2014 to nearly 5 million today. million in 2014. Last month, we focused on Black history, discussions they loved.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. Erika Kitzmiller is a faculty member in education at Barnard College and author of “ The Roots of Educational Philadelphia’s Germantown High School, 1907 -2014. ”. Related: “Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. The course was created in part in response to longstanding concerns that African American history has been downplayed or left out of K-12 curriculum. Related: Become a lifelong learner. But the A.P.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. The course would prepare students for her fast-paced junior-level AP American History class. A study of Cherokee Indian removal during the 1830s would inform her on a part of history she knew little about.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Army Special Forces soldier assigned to Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan provides security during an advising mission in Afghanistan, April 10, 2014. America and the World A U.S. Army photo by Spc.

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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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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. The interplay between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens offers a unique lens to study adaptation, survival, and the shared history of humanity. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We must insist that the American History we teach in our schools includes discussions of the systemic racism that has defined and divided our country. I am a primary resource when it comes to American History and civil rights, particularly in education. He is the author of “ Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer. ”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 1998 and 2014, the percentage of freshmen intending to major in science increased among most ethnic and racial demographics and also among women, according to a study by the National Science Foundation. History proves otherwise. There has been some progress. As of 2018, membership was still only 9 percent female.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014. The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. in crime reduction, according to a 2014 evaluation conducted for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

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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. For Hispanic students, it went from 22 to 54 percent.

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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

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. She casually refers to students she meets as “girlfriend” and “buddy.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Over the past two years, the district has hired six teachers from among its non-teaching staff, including a Black bus driver who recently earned his teaching credentials and now teaches history. Since 2014, North Clackamas has increased new teacher diversity by 35 percent, according to district data. These are educators.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Related: New studies challenge the claim that black students are sent to special ed too much.

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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. But racism is imparted not just by not just by what a state demands its students to learn; it’s also about what they don’t require — learning the true history of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Students in the district who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade in 2014 (the last year it was offered as a stand-alone course to eighth-graders) had a repeat rate of 40 percent. As a result, more students in the district are taking a fourth year of high-school mathematics — and taking advanced classes beyond Algebra 2 — than ever in its history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 800,000 people with disabilities found eligible for services received no assistance between 2010 and 2014, according to federal data. He lives in the Bronx, and in the fall of 2014, he was brimming with hope. In Louisiana, 44 percent of people found eligible for services never received any in 2014.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

The researchers focused on more than 160,000 students under 25 who started either a two-year or a four-year degree program between 1999 and 2008 and continued to track their earnings through 2014. One possible interpretation of this study is that establishing a work history is even more important than getting a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In recent history, roughly half of first-year college students have been sent to remedial classes in math, English or both, according a 2016 Center for American Progress report. Florida made remedial classes optional in 2014, letting students decide for themselves whether to take them. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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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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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 89

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?” Yet far from a one-way conversation, “American Cultures” opens the door to seeing our history, values and norms from the outside.

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