Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The book dismantles the idea that genetic similarity can explain what makes us humanor that genes can do the cultural and historical work of explaining behavior, intelligence, or social life.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These findings offer new insights into the evolutionary pathways of dexterity and cultural development that began long before the genus Homo emerged. However, the 2015 discovery of 3.3 When Homo habilis , known as "handyman," was discovered alongside stone tools from 2.3 afarensis may have been capable of making and using tools.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This discovery reshapes our understanding of early animal domestication and its cultural significance in Predynastic Egypt. 2024.106104 The Discovery at Hierakonpolis Hierakonpolis, located about 100 kilometers from modern-day Luxor, was a thriving center of Predynastic Egyptian culture and an early hub of political power.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

As an innovative leader, you are reinventing the school culture through a different lens. Prior to leading any new initiative, you can use an adapted version of a well-known business tool to take a snapshot of where you perceive the current culture to be in its current situation. & Kotler, P. Marketing: An introduction (12th ed.).

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2025

“That would place culture, in its earliest form, hundreds of thousands of years deeper into our past.” Related Research To better understand the context of these findings, the following studies offer complementary insights into early material culture and cognitive evolution: Wynn, T., & Coolidge, F. (2011).

Humanities 97

Humanities Archaeology Artifacts Cultures 97

ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Surgeon General declared it a crisis in 2021.

Education 92

Education Library Cultures Public School 92

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cultural and Geopolitical Implications of the Findings Rock Paintings and Ritual Significance The caves of Peruaçu Valley offer more than archaeological specimens—they also contain rare rock paintings depicting crops, including maize. Maize: Origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture.

Archaeology 98

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Europe's First Mega-Settlements: A Case Study To address this, the researchers turned to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a prehistoric society flourishing between 5050 and 2950 BCE in what is now Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. PDF available Introduces a process-oriented approach to interpreting material culture. McGuire, R.

Archaeology 98

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

— pat deklotz (@PDeklotz) January 30, 2015. — Jen Humke (@jhumke) January 30, 2015. By designing systems that reflect the real needs of educators and supporting those systems with meaningful recognition for learners, we can build a culture that authentically values lifelong professional learning.

Cultures 103

Cultures Research Education 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

A 2015 study found that a brief experiment by California to enroll all eighth graders in algebra backfired, lowering test scores in large districts, though it had little effect on small and mid-sized ones. Ken Gagner has been Brahams superintendent since 2015. And there could be a downside.

Middle School 145

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

Humanities 73

Humanities History Ancestry Archaeology 73

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether through shared resources, companionship, or experimentation, the early relationships between humans and canids reveal a dynamic interplay of culture, survival, and adaptability. Journal : Current Biology , 2015. DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45 A Genomic Perspective on Early Canid Domestication Authors : Skoglund, P., Ersmark, E.,

Humanities 98

Humanities Archaeology Anthropology History 98

Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

When humans feel stressed or disconnected, our brains shift away from the higher-order thinking needed for learning and into survival mode (Arnsten, 2015). 2: Learning is Embedded in Culture and Relationships Our brains physically change in response to our social and cultural context. link] Han, S. Immordino-Yang, M.

Research 52

Research Humanities Cultures Psychology 52

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Using machine analysis of over 1,500 bilingual dictionaries spanning more than 600 languages, researchers report that vocabulary is not just a passive catalog of the world, but a cultural archive shaped by what humans find urgent, beautiful, or sacred. What happens to culturally dense concepts in endangered or creolized languages?

Humanities 59

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. A recent study, The Genomic Portrait of the Picene Culture 1 , published in Genome Biology , attempts to decode their past through ancient DNA analysis. Ravasini et al. Posth, C.,

Ancestry 61

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

His African Realism: International Relations Theory and Africa’s Wars in the Postcolonial Era (2015) was a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.” He published Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Likewise, we’re better served by being as precise as possible when we discuss testing. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J. Kamenetz, A.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In 2015, Travis was named TIE Technology Leader of the Year, which recognized his work integrating technology into his classroom. Travis believes that by empowering learners to drive their learning we can start to create a new system that honors all learners and their cultures.

Cultures 143

Cultures Tradition Teaching Education 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

Tradition 145

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

High School 109

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It requires listening to community, acknowledging harm, and making changes—across partnerships, leadership, culture, funding, and programming. Since 2015, the EdCluster network has included more than 50 organizations in 20 regions across the country. If it isn’t equitable, it isn’t innovative.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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Economics Elementary School Public School Cultures 136

Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2015. September 2015. For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Government Economics Humanities 52

Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al., 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Copeland T., & Dengah, F. Involve me and I learn”: Teaching and applying anthropology. Lumpkin, A. &

Anthropology 130

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

Five of these awards are new for 2015, including: The Parents as Partners award recognizes an educator who engages parents and caregivers in creative ways to support student learning in and outside the classroom. Check out last year’s winning video submissions here.

K-12 127

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. What we’re trying to do is revive our culture,” she said. “So

Lesson Plan 142

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”. I changed majors.”. “I

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region.

Government 136

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

Ötzi the Iceman, a poignant relic of antiquity, has captivated anthropologists with his cryptic tattoos, offering a glimpse into the complex tapestry of ancient cultures. 2015: fig. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al.,

Museum 98

Museum Archaeology Cultures Research 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Although Nassar is a monster, our society is to blame for a culture that continues to permit the abuse of women and girls, and doubts them when they come forward. The bungled FBI investigation is just one a symptom of a culture of abuse of and contempt for girls and women that extends to our schools.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. We will continue the conversation with both APSA and WPSA Community College faculty members.

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Political Science Social Justice Civics Civic Engagement 38

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, the district began partnering with Digital Promise to develop better processes for making evidence-based decisions in order to ensure the tools benefit their students and educators. Embedded in their culture is an emphasis on educator buy-in and student voice. An educator explained, “We are able to take risks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

Higher education institutions can facilitate access to tele-mental health care with special attention to culturally sensitive and trauma-informed practices. In doing so, they can help maintain gains in workplace diversity and equity. Even before the pandemic, college students of color faced unique mental health challenges.

Social Justice 137

Social Justice High School Cultures Education 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

OPSU students also won the National Hispanic College Quiz in 2015 and 2017. Historically black schools are known for having curricula, faculty and student groups that center on black culture, and have been largely run by African-Americans since their incarnation. The learning environment at Hispanic-serving schools varies widely.

Leadership 111

Leadership Cultures Education High School 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). BCPS’ Department of Digital Learning partnered with Digital Promise to roll out a micro-credential pilot during the 2015-2016 school year focused on “S.T.A.T.

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Education Professional Development Leadership Public School 113