Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Hutt, E. &

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 1 , takes a fresh look at these enigmatic skulls, using isotope analysis to track the origins and movements of the individuals whose remains were subjected to this unsettling tradition. One of the severed heads found at Ullastret. Journal of Archaeological Science.

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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. The ivory baton, once considered a silent relic of artistry, now echoes the industrious efforts of early humans, leaving an indelible mark on the tapestry of our shared history. 1 Conard, N.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo is pictured here in 2015 recording a #gocrickets podcast with his daughter Alena, then a third-grader. Since 2015, the district’s teachers have used #mashpee on Twitter to show off student achievement and to post classroom announcements, including homework reminders. Photo: Cindy Kolpien.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Thousands of credentials classes aimed at improving specific skills have cropped up outside of traditional colleges. Employers report trouble finding job candidates who can communicate well and work in teams , which is among the reasons George Mason University administrators say they started the resilience badge class in 2015.

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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. Eventually the subjects that children need to learn, from physics to history, become more complex, and at some point teachers cannot be expected to teach all subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

ET) on The History Channel. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. My job is to protect that environment for children. That’s why I come to work every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. Most of them don’t think about technology and food going together, when clearly they do, even in traditional farming.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I Croft and Nardolilli also launched their own STEM game design company, Catilli, in 2015. “It But does better engagement improve their grades?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools.

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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. And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes.

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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 ). Related: Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading.

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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. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ). And in 2015, after a comprehensive review of early childhood research, the Institute of Medicine , part of the National Academy of Sciences, recommended that all lead teachers in early childhood settings have a bachelor’s.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

. “The advantage of what I did is that income reported by parents is more reliable but I’m using different kinds of tests,” said Reardon, who admits there’s no ideal way to study achievement gaps over long periods of history with existing data. or a telephone answering machine.

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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. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. Related: How to save the humanities?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By the time I arrived in Ecuador for fieldwork in 2015, however, the general mood throughout the region was acrimonious. Shuar, like other peoples in the world, can learn from our history and past experiences,” a shaman told me when I asked what it meant to know the future.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For instance, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners, or men who had not achieved partnership status. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Lewis cut more than 40 positions from the district’s central office between 2015 and 2018, about a third of all central office employees. Morial Convention Center on May 14, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Baba Mondi (in white, with green hat) with representatives of Albania’s other religions, in Paris in 2015 to honor the victims of the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo. The Order clung on but moved its headquarters to Albania in 1925 when Atatürk secularized the newly formed Turkish republic and abolished all dervish orders.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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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. High-achieving low-income students, in particular, don’t know what “liberal arts” means, according to a 2015 study by researchers at Stanford and the University of Virginia.

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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 13, 2022

In a state that earmarks no funding for English learners, the lack of support shows: In 2015-16, only about 15 percent of those students achieved proficiency on standardized exams; the number dropped dramatically the next year and has improved slightly since then, to just 3 percent in 2019-20. In Mexico, my biggest was 15.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. Though making significant change would mean legislative action in Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.” A seventh grader at a charter school in St.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I As these traditional occupations started dying, the burden of sustenance fell on farming activities, especially for communities who could not speak Nepali or English and could therefore not compete for government jobs. But I don’t know who wrote the Nepali national anthem.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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