ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. Thats down from a fourth grade high of 223 in 2015 and an eighth grade high of 268 in 2013. Its just what happened during the early days of the pandemic, when kids were stuck at home and beaming into school through a computer.

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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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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. Studies on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, found that all modern human mtDNA lineages trace back to a common ancestor in Africa, roughly 200,000 years ago.

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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. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate. Beyond Hancock’s creations, Ancient Aliens dominates the History Channel.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree.

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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? DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.15

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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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. than with the Altai Neanderthal. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

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The Hechinger Report

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.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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Related: Debt Without Degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”. Maybe more people should know that predominantly white school districts received $23 billion more in funding in the 2015-16 school year than districts that serve mostly students of color. But wealth begets wealth in this country.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. The treasure chest of human experience! Even Schimpffs Confectionery and the famous Louisville Modjeska Caramel is related to this human eddy.

Museum 52

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

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. Introduction A new study, recently released as a preprint on bioRxiv , sharpens the timeline for this crucial period in human history.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5217 Unveiling the Enigma Back in 2015, ivory fragments surfaced in Hohle Fels, showcasing signs of intricate workmanship. Dated to around 37,000 years ago, these pieces were attributed to the skilled hands of early modern humans. Credit: Science Advances (2024). 1 Conard, N. J., & Rots, V.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Morrison was reflecting on her 45-year career crafting some of the most moving and important novels in American history, days before publishing her 11th and final novel, God Help the Child , in 2015. Morrison’s fiction is often rooted in historical fact, including the bloodshed and violence that continue to mar American history.

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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

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 18, 2017

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. Approximately 80 percent of college degrees — including in the humanities that Hanrahan’s peers majored in, such as English and History — have labor market value, Carnevale says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. Related: How to save the humanities? Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. Fatima Siddiqui, homeschooler.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.” Choose as many as you like.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. Under the federal education bill passed in 2015, states are permitted to forgo single end-of-year subject tests and use more nuanced measures instead. Related: Column: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In addition to her classes in English, history, algebra and life sciences, Toney will have the opportunity to earn a “Red Hat Certification” in cybersecurity, a competitive credential in the field. In that time, giving to the San Antonio ISD Foundation has risen from $919,520 in 2015 to more than $11 million last year.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming. Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. school system is a “mess.”

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

In August of 2015, I was 37½ weeks pregnant with my first child. I began to see everyone I interacted with as a human being with history, knowledge and expertise I had never noticed before. I looked at the teachers I worked with as humans first—not just as practitioners I needed to equip with specific tools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

17, 2015, in New York. Regressive criminal justice policies and harsh school discipline policies are evil cousins that rob black and brown students’ humanity. The irony of major education groups’ history of blocking such legislation is the subtle admission of an inability to teach and reach students. High School Tuesday, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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