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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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). There is also more than just one path to mastery - different humans may take different valid routes to achieve the same learning goals (Fischer & Yan, 2002).

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Anthropology.net

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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations at Mandrin Cave revealed the remains of both Neanderthals and modern humans.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The study, published in PLOS ONE 1 on December 11, 2024, uses bioarchaeological analyses to shed light on the diets, deaths, and cultural practices of this enigmatic population, linked to the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilla culture. What sets this site apart is the unusual presence of burnt human remains. Hofmann, R., Shatilo, L.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Among the most perplexing of these practices is the display of severed human heads—gruesome relics once nailed to walls or placed near entrances. Credit: MAC-Ullastret a De Prado, 2015 For decades, archaeologists speculated on the meaning of these skulls. Were they war trophies, grim warnings to enemies?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2015. September 2015. Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.”

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. accepted evolution , agreeing with the statement, “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.” Don’t start with a fake claim.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al., Copeland T., & Dengah, F. Annals of Anthropological Practice 40 (2).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. 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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia." Nature, 514(7523), 445-449.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The Neanderthal fossil was found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter (shown) in France. The Discovery of Thorin: A New Line of Neanderthals The key to this revelation lies in the remains of an adult male Neanderthal, dubbed “Thorin,” found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter in France. 1 Sikora, M.,

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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

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. In Denmark, that looked a little different.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson.

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Sapiens

MARCH 10, 2025

Ask for the names to burn, for the statues to be melted down; (Since 2015, numerous initiatives in the U.S. South have removed monuments or renamed landmarks that honor Confederate figures, who supported, or were themselves perpetrators of, racial segregation, human trafficking, and enslavement.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. It has me constantly reminding myself to work with human beings, not human behavior.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In 2015-16, community colleges enrolled more than a third of dependent undergraduate students whose families earned less than $20,000 a year. The Human Element University outreach made the difference for Del Real Viramontes. He credits that experience with giving him the academic confidence he needed to transfer to a university.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The event is the first UN summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015. Bueno, lo hicimos justamente en este momento histórico y cultural de Argentina, y de algunas otras partes del mundo, para visualizar los distintos roles que pueden ser actuados por las personas. Watch the MY World 360?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. I graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. You’re basically their second source of knowledge. Let me just quit.”

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APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? As we experience increasing precarity associated with defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, such as climate change (Gibson and Venkateswar 2015; McGill et al.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The years between 2000 and 2015 saw the number of instructional coaches in U.S. Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. The reason emotions and the socio-cultural environment are so powerful is that they are intertwined with our cognition. schools double.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The increase may be one factor leaving a high percentage of college students “rent-burdened,” defined as paying more than 30 percent of household income toward rent. percent for the period ending 2017 compared to the period ending 2015, according to Census data. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. The necessary learning happens on the job.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There’s a lot of ambiguity about which specific programs work, and who they work for,” said Michael Mrazek, director of research at the Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School. We see kids not staying up as late, getting better sleep.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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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. In 2015, a U.S. Recently, mainstream institutions began asking, Where did all the black teachers go ?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Here are two ways to move toward a more diverse faculty, and with it a campus culture that works for all of us. There were, for example, 6,300 doctoral degrees awarded to African-American students in 2015, and there are 4,627 degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. The culture of attendance is huge. Sign up for our newsletter.

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