Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The co-management plan recognizes the deep cultural legacies of Indigenous peoples and establishes a legal basis for ceremonial and traditional practices such as gathering medicines, food, and firewood. In many ways, ecologically driven traditional firewood harvest practices are inherently in keeping with this law.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

In this ever-evolving world of digital communication, a world where information arrives at our digital doorstep without being invited, we have to reset traditional thinking. Our stakeholders' lives are now about exchange powered by inbound social and digital forces. The bottom line is that if you don't tell your story someone else will.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. In 2015, Rutgers-Newark’s six-year graduation rate was 64 percent for black students and 63 percent for white students, according to administrators, compared with 40 percent and 61 percent respectively at public institutions nationally.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Credit: Flaviane Malaquias Costa Elizabeth Ann Veasey, a professor at USP and co-author of the study, explained: “We traveled from the remote past to the present, tracing a lineage from archaeological remains to extant maize varieties still being cultivated by traditional peoples.” American Antiquity, 55 (2), 324–337.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year. And there could be a downside.

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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This year I shifted from traditional grades to a standards-based grading system. When I used traditional grades, students asked, “Why did I get this grade?” As I wrap up 2015, I am incredibly thankful for the educators in my life who inspire me and motivate me to continue learning. Thank you!

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

Moment, But a Slow Discovery The traditional view of early toolmaking suggests that one particularly clever hominin, perhaps while cracking a nut or smashing a bone, accidentally broke a rock and discovered the sharp edges it produced. million years ago. Not a "Eureka!" Related Research: Harmand, S., Feibel, C. Nature , 521(7552), 310-315.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Opportunities Driving Growth and Innovation The findings challenge traditional narratives attributing the rise of mega-settlements to external pressures like climate change or resource scarcity. Social transformations in archaeology: Global and local perspectives. Malafouris, L., & Gosden, C. Process archaeology (P-arch). McGuire, R.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

” Alternatively, the butchery of human remains could have been embedded within a complex mortuary tradition. . “The treatment of the bodies and the indifference with which the remains were disposed of may be associated with the eaters’ lack of respect and empathy for those that were eaten.” DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.003

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2016

Virtual charter schools can give students who are falling behind in traditional schools a chance to find success in an alternative learning environment. But can virtual charter schools fully replace the traditional face-to-face school experience? Fordham Institute, doesn’t think the current virtual school model can do that.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin.

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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. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J. Harvard University Press.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Redesigning a large traditional district school, Vista Challenge High School will work to develop creators, inventors, powerful thinkers and innovators — students who learn and grow and take action to solve real-world problems through exploration, analysis, debate, imagination, and risk-taking.

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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. For instance, a study by Han (2015) compared young adults raised in East Asian versus Western cultures. link] Han, S.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

It wasn’t until I incorporated online discussions into my traditional class that I was able to engage every voice in our class dialog. My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Starting with Online Discussions. Just in time for summer reading!

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In 2015, Travis was named TIE Technology Leader of the Year, which recognized his work integrating technology into his classroom. 4: In what ways does the traditional design and structure of school negatively impact student engagement and motivation? What degree of agency do the students on your campus enjoy on a typical day?

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Collaboration among all education stakeholders, including researchers, entrepreneurs, community members, and educators, is needed to alter traditional teaching and learning processes and successfully meet these challenges. Why is this important?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In New York City, only 54 percent of students graduated from high school within six years at the city’s 50 transfer schools, which is the name the city uses because students who fall behind “transfer” from traditional high schools, where 83 percent of students managed to graduate within six years. Most finish far sooner.) They let you eat.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

And there are a tremendous number of learning opportunities for teachers, both traditional and informal. — Angela Estrella (@am_estrella) January 30, 2015. ." Shirley, Elementary school teacher. Austin, Texas. The need and demand for personalized professional development is growing. pic.twitter.com/9HstezeYFT.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

For the fraction of kids who faithfully attended summer school for both summers following third and fourth grades, reading and math scores were significantly higher in the spring of fifth grade in 2015 than for students who didn’t win the summer school lottery. The evidence from previous programs doesn’t apply here.”.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

While almost every sector of higher education is seeing fewer students registering for classes, many trade school programs are booming with young people who are choosing trade school over a traditional four-year degree. Credit: John Amis/Associated Press One is sanding the seal off the bed of his 1989 Ford F-350, preparing to repaint.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015. College students in Rhode Island will save a collective $5 million a year if a plan to replace traditional textbooks with free materials is effective. Photo: Alison Yin. The plan, announced by Gov. And they can be updated more readily than printed texts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We may not know how much wider, though, because methods and data we’ve relied on for decades to measure student progress — standardized tests and traditional grades — may not be available this year. We expect that Covid-19 will make them grow even wider. Take what’s happening in South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

By 2015, President Obama asked LeBlanc to act as an adviser under the Secretary of Education’s office on the role of competency-based education in higher education. SNHU’s model has taken off in a major way. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment increased from 2,000 students in 2009 to 34,000 by 2014 and continues to climb.

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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

APRIL 16, 2018

As a result, Florida’s legislature put a one-year moratorium on new programs, and then officials slowed down the creation of new ones after 2015. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. As of 2015, 23 states permitted the practice. But they did not harm four-year public universities. (AP

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The schools were selected from more than 200 applicants spanning private, charter and traditional public schools that had sought access to AltSchool’s technology. At Berthold Academy , which opened in 2015, they believe the AltSchool platform dovetails with the nearly 110-year-old method developed by the Italian educator Maria Montessori.

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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. Credit: Science Advances (2024). Dated to around 37,000 years ago, these pieces were attributed to the skilled hands of early modern humans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

At least that is the conclusion I reached after looking at data on more than 400 traditional public middle schools in New York City, where the rankings are dominated by students’ absolute proficiency levels. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

million students enrolled in community colleges in 2015-16, about 900,000 were 40 or older. Today’s students, however, tend to be older — nearly 7.6 million college students in 2018 were 25 years or older. And of the 12.1 R elated: Going back to school after 50. This idea is supported by 86 percent of Americans.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For example, requirements in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) that school improvement efforts be “evidence-based” are not quite panning out as intended, in part because they are not designed well and in part because school leaders have inadequate knowledge of what works. No school governance model is predominant.

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