Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Malafouris, L., & Gosden, C. McGuire, R.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A new study published in Scientific Reports 1 takes another look at human remains from Maszycka Cave in Poland, and the findings reignite a long-standing debate. Human induced modifications on cranial and postcranial remains. Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The deliberate alteration of sheep horns likely mirrored this tradition, transforming them into living symbols of the elite’s ability to dominate and reshape the natural world. Hieroglyphic depictions and ritual artifacts reveal that early Egyptians often used animals to represent gods, cosmic forces, or societal ideals.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. This might come as a surprise, but humans actually have fewer genes than most plants, and about the same number as goldfish!

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. If each additional layer of technology we introduce adds to the variability of human data, we might well question how we fund, conduct, and interpret research involving humans and the use of technology. Change one element and the context changes. Shilling, R.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Dedicated stewardship is required.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2018

An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. See bar chart.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. The law allows districts to apply for freedom from state education requirements, such as seat time and traditional course sequencing, through an innovation plan.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” A classroom using the Teach to One math program. Photo: Nichole Dobo. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Traditional school districts that attempt to bring a new model of education that provides personally designed lessons for students often face conflicting priorities that make it difficult to follow through, according to a new report released today. Photo: Nichole Dobo. They served many low-income and minority children.

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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

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

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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Anthropology 365

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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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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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The years between 2000 and 2015 saw the number of instructional coaches in U.S. Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. schools double.

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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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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

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. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

The trend toward dismantling traditional remedial education is unambiguous. Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. And the actual decline is probably larger, because the CBMS survey collection was for the 2015-16 school year. There’s more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: Demands for a radical overhaul of the Orleans Parish school system in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were predicated on low test scores. Alongside the state legislature, they finally settled on new tests that were introduced in 2015 to measure performance against the new standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Yet high schools around the country, while encouraging students to go into STEM fields, aren’t fully preparing them to do so. This means that freshmen start high school science with algebra-based physics instead of the more traditional biology. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. Dallas principals look for “highly-qualified” individuals committed to teaching who have strong academic backgrounds, said Robert Abel, the district’s human capital management chief.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

More important, he said, is for educators to ask, “How can we effectively self-actualize human beings?”. Leave this field empty if you're human: Each classroom operates differently — independence has one look in kindergarten and another in fifth grade — but students display a striking sense of academic self-awareness. When Dan D.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2017

At Baltimore City Community College, for instance, in the fall of 2015, only 13 percent of students were deemed ready to start on college-level math and English courses right away, according to data provided by the school. At many public schools in the state, it’s uncommon for an incoming student not to be placed in remedial education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

According to a national 2015 study, on a single day in 2013, the most recent comprehensive data available, kids in those facilities numbered 55,916, 37 percent below the figure for 2004. Overdose deaths in the northwestern Pennsylvania county rose by 300 percent between 2015 and mid-2017.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

VUSD has a strong “School of Choice” program through which students may elect to attend schools like Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), where students are engaged in a middle school curriculum that emphasizes design thinking, STEM, humanities, and creative arts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. In 2015 , students were asked if they had their own cell phone and an internet connection. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012.

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