Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 Unlike its predecessor, the Oldowan tradition, which focused on basic percussive technologies, the Acheulian period is marked by a broader use of advanced tools such as handaxes and cleavers. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.005

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths. In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. 700 attendees gathered at Ramapo College for Northern Ignite’s event, co-hosted with EdSurge, in 2016. Adam Fried Superintendent, Harrington Park School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

About forty years ago , criminal justice scholars and reformers in North America and Europe began exploring justice across cultures and studying the perspectives of perpetrators. for example, juvenile courts that practice restorative justice have significantly reduced recidivism compared with those using traditional approaches.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Since the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools , superintendents from around the country have connected with leading researchers in the field of maker learning. Use our one-page worksheet to help you envision a culturally relevant maker learning program in your district or read the researchers’ article.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, “ The Future of Jobs ,” a majority of employers say creativity is one of the most valued qualities they seek in their employees, along with critical-thinking skills and the ability to solve complex problems. This summer, the Bloomberg Arts Internship program expanded to Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing. ET) on The History Channel.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2016, The School for Creative Studies, in Durham, North Carolina, prevented black students from wearing traditional head wraps, or geles , a symbol used to represent the students’ connection with Africa — during Black History month, no less! The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

percent in 2016. The Adult Learner 360 Academy for HSIs is designed to help the many college students who aren’t the carefree 18- to 21-year-old young adults so often portrayed in pop culture. Yet, the percentage of Latino college students between the ages of 18 and 24 rose from 21.7 percent in 2000 to 39.2

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

These engagements disproportionately attract younger alumni who are difficult to reach using traditional athletics fundraising approaches, such as donor seating programs at football and basketball games. They are updating traditional value statements (e.g., “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. But not at the Muñiz Academy.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How do environmental, historical, and cultural factors influence human-javelina relations in Texas? The introduction stresses the significance of understanding human-javelina encounters within their specific socio-ecological contexts through a blend of historical, ecological, and cultural analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. In 2016, the Obama administration highlighted it with a report that it called “an unprecedented look at a hidden educational crisis.”.

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Anthropology News

JULY 20, 2024

In Greece, specifically, the nearness and farness of the stranger is rooted in claims of filoxenia (literally “love of the stranger,” but usually translated as “hospitality”) as a cultural and historical value. Filoxenia is splashed across newspaper articles , tourism websites , and travel blogs. As I did so, I waved to the manager, Giorgos.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture. Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the national nonprofit YouthTruth , in 2015 and 2016, over 84 percent of high school students reported wanting to go to college. For example, PeerForward trains peer leaders to build a college-going culture in low-income high schools. High school students tend to dream big.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Still others are stymied by academic calendars that continue to favor the traditional 18- to 22-year-old, even though such students are no longer the norm. In 2016, 47 percent of Americans held a certificate or better, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. Then there are the barriers colleges put up.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Foxworth-Carter’s ties to Carver reflect a strong high-school alumni tradition in New Orleans that was basically put on hiatus for nearly a decade as the city went through high-profile school reforms. I had been taught that my role was to build school culture from the inside-out,” he said. Bryant realized he had homework to do. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. For English, only half of the online students passed the course and made up the credit compared with two-thirds of the students in the traditional teacher-taught class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

But all of the 19 states that did make information readily publicly available in 2016 reported higher dropout rates for students in special education than for all students. By 2016, the district had reduced its dropout rate for students in special education to fewer than 5 percent and increased the graduation rate to 85 percent.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Many Opportunity Youth have had traumatic experiences within the traditional school setting, and often these educational struggles are rooted in undiagnosed learning differences. In 2016, we had our first participant from a YouthBuild International program in Mexico City.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. That figure jumps to 96 percent in wealthier districts, according to the 2016 NAEP survey. There were a few hints in the 2016 NAEP survey. It’d be nice to know that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. It was one of the last remaining traditional public schools in the city.

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