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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Goodman, M.

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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 : Current Biology , 2015. DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45 Ersmark, E.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Will history repeat? The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 Ironically, funding for education plummeted.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Their findings not only rewrite the history of Inuit migration but also challenge the Eurocentric lens of modern genetics and medicine. “Genetics is increasingly important for diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment of disease.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. However, the 2015 discovery of 3.3 The hand bones of Australopithecus sediba. A new study shows that A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. during the 2015-16 school year were women.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

“If naturaliths were being used extensively, then the history of tool use is likely much older than we think,” Bebber said. The findings also suggest that archaeologists should reconsider the definition of tool use in the fossil record. If a sharp stone was used by a hominin but not modified, does it still count as a tool?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, this new genomic study, led by Francesco Ravasini and colleagues, reconstructs the biological history of the Picenes using DNA extracted from 102 ancient individuals spanning over 1,000 years of history. While the Picenes eventually faded from history, absorbed into the expanding Roman state, their genetic legacy persisted.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms.

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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.” Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Likewise, we’re better served by being as precise as possible when we discuss testing.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Jeff Sessions (R-AL) pauses as he speaks to members of the media after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon February 24, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The post Will Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions stumble over his history on disabled students? Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In September 2015, the XQ Institute put out an open call to rethink and design the next American high school through their XQ: Super School Project – perhaps the largest school-redesign challenge in the nation’s history.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The day we were awarded the opportunity to participate in this initiative back in 2015 is a day that is forever ingrained in my memory. Before the 2015-16 school year, our school had just two laptop carts with 20 laptops each that were shared among all of our classes. Science teachers were engaging students in virtual lab experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. But until 2011, civil rights history was not part of the required curriculum in Mississippi public schools. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve written Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology to support English, history/social studies, and science teachers as they shift to the new Standards using technology. My book is now available for preorder !

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Famous Black Scientists Who Made History Feb 8, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Our world would look very different without the scientists who have made breakthroughs in our technology and advanced our understanding of medicine, astronomy, physics, and chemistry.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations. The Neanderthal fossil was found in 2015 at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter (shown) in France. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

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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.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since race and income are highly correlated due to the pervasive discrimination that has blighted this nation’s history, whiter districts receive more money than majority-minority districts. Predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A 2015 study found that students who had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register. In 2015, the state required some colleges to allow them to stay in dorms over academic breaks for free.

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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

MARCH 26, 2018

In 2015, a mere 25 percent of high school seniors were proficient in the subject, according to the National Center for Education Statistics , which produces the most reliable data on academic competency. In fact, down the hallway from his algebra class, two industrious history teachers were trying out their own strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. Never have we had so much information at our fingertips,” the study’s authors wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. recently published his seventh book and is a history professor at the College of Charleston. Rural school districts sued the state for more resources in the late 1990s and finally won their case in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Ten percent identify themselves as multiracial.).

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MAY 27, 2020

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education. I don’t think so.”.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2015. September 2015. Witnesses adherence to the Bible transcends the kinds of histories in secular society that emphasize a world order dominated by competition between nation states. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2015, I left the classroom for a year to try something different and it completely reshaped my work. But before all of that, I had to turn to history for a deeper understanding of how we got here. While learning about the history of the problem, I reflected on my own journey as a Black student, teacher and administrator.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015.

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