Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By directly comparing the stone tools (lithics) of these two cultures for the first time, researchers have found no meaningful technological connection between them. Châtelperronian sites are compiled from Pelegrin and Soressi ( 2007 ) and Soressi and Roussel ( 2014 ) modified. 2014 ) modified. 2020 ) and Douka et al.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Led by a team of international researchers, this large-scale genomic analysis, recently published in Nature 1 , analyzed nearly 6,000 Greenlandic individuals—an astonishing 14% of the adult population.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

The Puzzle of the Missing Fires In the bleak cold of the Last Glacial Maximum, it seems obvious that fire would have been essential for human survival. A recent study from a team of researchers working at Korman’ 9, a Paleolithic site in Ukraine’s middle Dniester valley, begins to offer some clarity. Brooks, A. Basic Books.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Unlike bones and tools, words do not fossilize, leaving researchers to scour DNA for clues.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. Journal of Human Evolution, 137 , 102671. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar?

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

A recent study sheds new light on its human history, highlighting the deep impact of migrations from New Guinea into this region approximately 3,500 years ago. Researchers analyzed 254 newly sequenced genomes, uncovering evidence of extensive gene flow from West Papua into the islands of Wallacea. Related Research Lipson, M.,

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’ve never liked the idea that as teachers it is our job to “manage” students, but it wasn’t until I was reading research about human motivation for my doctoral program that I understood why I was feeling such a knee-jerk reaction when I heard the phrase “classroom management.” Hofferber, N.,

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

In 2014, the Obama Administration jolted the education world with a report detailing unfair and racist school discipline practices across the country. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. At last, more sophisticated research has been commissioned, and the results are starting to trickle in.

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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. By the 1990s, genetic research began to challenge the Multiregional hypothesis. The Multiregional Evolution hypothesis. The authors explain how modern genome sequencing further cemented the Out of Africa model.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The findings suggest that, while they were competent bipeds, their running capabilities lagged far behind those of later human ancestors. Our simulations revealed that Lucy wasn’t as efficient or as fast at running as modern humans," the researchers explain. Even untrained human sprinters can hit speeds of around 17.6

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. I recently heard the sentence, ‘Treating kids equitably is not treating them the same.’ ” Aubrey Francisco.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Education researchers are trying to come up with different ways to measure success. Related: Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school. Jackson declined to identify strong or weak schools by name because the research is in early stages. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience. ” The researchers connect this concept to our evolutionary history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent of doctorates in both the humanities and social sciences, but just 5.4

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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. A push for greater diversity in academia and scientific research has followed the Black Lives movement, and it’s about time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. Indeed, research has shown that students who enroll in these remedial courses often never even make it into the classes that will count toward a degree.

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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. Right before my colleague retired in 2014, he asked if I would like to take it over, to which I firmly replied, “Yes!”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All students, including white students, benefit from having teachers of color, according to a summary of the research by the Learning Policy Institute. And students of color do better academically and are more likely to graduate and go to college if some of their teachers look like them, research shows. These are educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. The $50,000 is adjusted for inflation in constant 2014 dollars.). In 2014, almost third of borrowers with large debts had taken out their loans to finance their undergraduate education. Weekly Update.

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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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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Researchers have long debated when and where these mingling events occurred and whether they were isolated incidents or commonplace. A recent not-yet-peer-reviewed analysis 1 of ancient and modern genomes suggests that contemporary human Neanderthal DNA originated from a single, prolonged period of mixing approximately 47,000 years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the most recent federal data I could find from 2014-15, almost 90 percent of high school principals said they offered online credit recovery in their schools and estimated that 15 percent of their students used these software programs. But there was a downside. That’s a sign these adults didn’t learn needed skills in school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

One explanation from the 1990s is the so-called 30-million word gap , in which researchers observed how higher income parents talked to their kids more and estimated that low income kids heard 30 million fewer words before the age of four. But a new generation of researchers has been questioning whether the quantity of words really matters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

That might seem like a reasonable approach but there’s controversy among researchers about whether repeating third grade is ultimately helpful. One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Wisconsin Scholars Grant recipients were 42 percent more likely to declare a STEM major than their peers, the study found. Humanities graduates averaged $48,733. percent from 2014 to 2024, compared to 6.4 Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. Department of Health and Human Services. More research is needed, even as teen birth rates decline, on educating teen moms.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Researchers are studying rapid changes in remedial education, from the elimination of placement exams to making remedial classes optional. Leave this field empty if you're human: Policymakers have been trying to fix the system. Florida made remedial classes optional in 2014, letting students decide for themselves whether to take them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing research showing that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates. Credit: Amanda J.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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