Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

2015: fig. © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. Reproduced by permission of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. Details of the Iceman's sixty-one carbon pigment tattoos (after Samadelli et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must create an inclusive culture.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

Comparing the frequency of words in English language books between 1950 and 2015, the author tracked how the term “Atlantis” grew to outrank other popular conspiracy theories, real archaeological sites, and actual figures from ancient history. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The XQ Institute’s mission is to help create those schools, and it launched in 2015 with an ambitious contest that invested tens of millions of dollars in locally created plans to reinvent the high school experience. that tripled the number of black students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Seven-year-old Kate Stabenow and her five-year old brother Jack put the finishing touches on the buildings they designed and built at the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new early-childhood fab lab. The museum staffers were testing a prototype, too. Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy, Bay Area Discovery Museum. “We

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special. NCHE’s colloquium model brings together a team of scholars.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. Journal : The American Journal of Human Genetics , 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Marty Rosen was still writing arts reviews for the Louisville Eccentric Observer [LEO] in 2015 when he noted that Dr. Wann was back directing plays in Shelbyville. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Marty Rosen was still writing arts reviews for the Louisville Eccentric Observer [LEO] in 2015 when he noted that Dr. Wann was back directing plays in Shelbyville. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Read a full recap of our fall 2015 League of Innovative Schools meeting. At Avonworth, high school students organize and curate contemporary art exhibits within their school under the guidance of art professionals at the Andy Warhol Museum. Sara Schapiro ( @sschappy ) is the Director of the League of Innovative Schools.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2017

Yannier’s invention, by contrast, is a giant piece of furniture intended for schools and museums. In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. The machine looks more like a museum installation than classroom equipment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Recipient of anACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, he also co-wrote the National Park Service’s Theme Study on Reconstruction. Hewes will lecture and lead a "Behind the Scenes" session on Civil War ephemera.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. An aging portable classroom will become a mini science museum, filled with hands-on activities for kids. The school’s efforts align with research on how rural communities can stanch population loss by luring residents back home.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Each was started between 2011 and 2015 as part of a national pilot launched by the YMCA to provide free early childhood education programs for young children in low-income families. “A That’s an income of less than twice the federal poverty level, which, in 2015, was $24,036 for a family of four with two children under 18.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Source: Natural History Museum, London Rajiv McCoy, a computational geneticist at Johns Hopkins University, remarks, "It’s probably the most comprehensive picture we have to date of Neanderthal gene flow into modern human populations." Neanderthal and Homo sapiens reconstruction. Science (New York, N.Y.) , 372 (6538), 115–116.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

She tries to build their vocabulary through conversation and by encouraging their parents to take them to the library and museums. As a result of his beliefs, he expanded New York City’s early childhood program: As of December 2015, 68,547 children were enrolled in a public prekindergarten class, up from about 50,000 the previous year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Since November 2015, Alyssa had lived in foster care, and her time with her mother had been restricted to twice-weekly visits, meted out one hour or so at a time, in the drab office of a child welfare organization and under the supervision of a caseworker. She also loves the bevy of field trips, community meetings, parent nights and outings.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Marty Rosen was still writing arts reviews for the Louisville Eccentric Observer [LEO] in 2015 when he noted that Dr. Wann was back directing plays in Shelbyville. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

High School 52

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In its attention to the embodied practice of detecting and to the social worlds of detectorists, the programme has been described by critics variously as “about hardly anything and almost everything” (Lloyd 2015) and “the most accurate portrait of men being men that you’ll find in current popular culture” (Fewery 2015).

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Reading: John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American (New York, 2015), Introduction. Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. By 2015, Pierre-Floyd and the school’s fourth principal—a black New Orleanian named Joey LaRoche—had pulled the school’s rating up to a B. I began on that trip to envision a life for myself outside of the South.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2017

After the 2015 Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in which white supremacist and neo-Confederate Dylann Roof killed nine African American congregants, people took action. TakeEmDownNOLA march has reached Lee Circle. It’s time to move the Confederate symbols [link].

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed that silk played a significant role in sacrificial rituals conducted by the Shu State during the late Shang Dynasty (1600–1100 BCE). The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. He’s resolved to stay upbeat. I’m trying to learn as much as I can,” he says. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

“That would be public schools, a museum, lots of places wherever there’s federal tax dollars. In the 2014-2015 school year, federal funding made up almost 15 percent of Mississippi’s total revenue for school districts—$672,385,143.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

We can’t go to the museum; we can’t go to the Discovery Center. million in 2016 dollars); in 2015, it received $23.5 “Preschool can be a great resource in rural communities,” said John McFarlane, the district superintendent who doubles as the seventh- through 12th-grade principal. “We We don’t have licensed day care. million ($42.9

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She is also the co-author of White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal), published by Princeton University Press in 2015. It received APSA’s Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015. Two of his books received the William Riker award for the best book on political economy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Participants are reimbursed for supplies year-round and can register their classes for free museum field trips — so long as the exhibits highlight petroleum. A 2015 NEED lesson teaches students how to ‘frack’ a frozen layer cake using chocolate syrup and a syringe-like turkey injector — not unlike Ohio’s demonstration using Twinkies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

“They made me waste one year of my life,” Al Aas says, a weary smile on his face as he recounts his endless efforts to untangle red tape while living off his income working at a Berlin museum devoted to the Cold War. He’s resolved to stay upbeat. I’m trying to learn as much as I can,” he says. “I

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