Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

Instead, it points to the possibility of shared traditions, passed between groups over time. It challenges the notion that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens existed in opposition, instead painting a picture of cooperation and shared traditions. Tinshemet Cave during the excavations. Credit: Yossi Zaidner. Did they hunt together?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations. Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

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 The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.005

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Today, we’re thrilled to congratulate Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City School District , and Steve Webb and Tom Hagley, Superintendent and Chief of Staff of Vancouver Public Schools , for being named to Education Week’s list of “Leaders to Learn From” in 2016.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

This is extremely relevant as about 1/3 of Americans and 760 million people globally will own a tablet in 2016. Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps. Image Credit: [link] The summit focused on the rise of tablet devices and to advances in their ability to create digital content.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

A recent study found that depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in teen girls has reached record highs, and that the number of mental health hospitalizations for children more than doubled between 2016 and 2022. Meanwhile, as children’s behavioral health struggles grow, the usual supports can’t keep up.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The research marks a milestone in the study of Indigenous weapons, combining centuries of traditional knowledge with cutting-edge biomechanical technology. The strength, skill, and technique of the person wielding the kodj or leangle determined its lethality. 1 Diamond, L. Cornish, B., Pizzolato, C., & Saxby, D. link] 2 Hiscock, P.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland University’s Masters Program in American History and Government. Brady, New York. Other Cheyenne and Arapahos were tired of fighting.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. But these are by far the exception.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

I’m beyond excited to bring all of my ideas to fruition as I work to make my perfect teaching position a reality for the 2016-2017 school year. Ultimately, I hope to prove that pockets of innovation can happen on traditional school campuses.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The easy part consists of creating and then sharing content using a blend of traditional and new age (i.e. Look for the book to be available at the end of 2016. social media) tools. I am excited to announce that I will be expanding on the topic of BrandED in my new book that I will be co-authoring with Trish Rubin for Jossey-Bass.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. And now, meet the 2016-2017 cohort: Bristol Warren Regional School District. Compton Unified School District. Covina-Valley Unified School District.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. The University of Utrecht analysis of all the mixed results of 114 studies from 2006 through 2016 found that flipped classrooms tended to increase student learning by a small amount.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. As many states adopted new state standards in recent years, educational leaders voiced concerns that traditional publishers had not developed adequately aligned materials. Matthew Miller is the Supt.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. But Isaacs doesn’t run a traditional classroom — and not just because his students spend most of their time in a fantasy world. The game world has a map, spotted with “quests” that students have to complete to move around and explore. Tweet at @TaraGarciaM.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Today, we’re thrilled to congratulate Matt Akin, Superintendent of Piedmont City School District , and Steve Webb and Tom Hagley, Superintendent and Chief of Staff of Vancouver Public Schools , for being named to Education Week’s list of “Leaders to Learn From” in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. The reason? A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (2016) Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. New York: Thames and Hudson 2.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”. 2016, May). 6, 2016, pp. Upjohn Institute Working Paper 15-231. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Restorative justice courts in countries including New Zealand , Rwanda and South Africa , for example, developed restorative practices based on the traditions of indigenous communities to address issues as diverse as genocide and petty theft. Related: Has video killed the dreaded red grading pen? But is it worth all of that effort?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Fewer than 31 percent of Black adults had a college degree in 2016, according to the most recent report by EdTrust , compared to 47 percent of white adults. Students at four-year institutions are more likely to be traditional age, between 18 and 24.

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While the winners can use the prize money toward the development of their own technologies, organizers hope the funding will launch a new tradition of investing in black tech entrepreneurs and the development of black talent. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

In 2017, public institutions received about $5,892 in state and local appropriations per each student enrolled full-time, down from $6,055 in 2016. Tuition revenue for each full-time student increased from $5,792 in 2016 to $6,009 in 2017. Enrollment in public institutions decreased from 11.5 million in 2012 to 11 million in 2017.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I could find only one large, well-designed study , published in 2016, that tested how much kids actually learn in voluntary summer school programs. I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. It was targeted at 3,000 low-income children in five cities in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That means they have come from non-traditional educational backgrounds and that meant these new teachers were going to need more instructional coaching cycles than traditionally trained teachers. In fact, approximately 85 percent of its new teachers in recent years have been alternatively certified. Filling teacher vacancies is one challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

One study from 2016 found that preschool teachers closely observed Black boys more than other children when they expected misbehavior. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said. Often, adults misunderstand children’s behavior.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. . According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. Colleges can’t suspend dissent away — that’s not how it works.

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