Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A Turning Point in Earth's Climate—and Human History The Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT) marked a significant shift in Earth’s glacial cycles, moving from a pattern of 41,000-year ice ages to much longer 100,000-year cycles. Full text available here Lake Ohrid’s Environmental History Authors : B.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. In 2017, Montana became the first state in the nation to protect Native students’ right to wear regalia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I visited Colleton County High School in 2017 and was thoroughly impressed with students’ deep engagement in their courses, many of which were project-based as part of the New Tech Network. I had not learned of this fascinating portion of our state’s history until after graduating from the University of South Carolina. Former Gov.

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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! School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2017. In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. percent in 2017. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop. Credit: Courtesy of Helen Gym.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Then I took a class with Gene Woods, following the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum. For instance, we learned in the Facing History curriculum about the Holocaust in which six million Jewish people were among those murdered. The history we were learning about was my history, too. I didn’t talk to anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2020

Over 800,000 early childhood educators have earned this credential in its 45-year history. That’s why, in 2017, we introduced the CDA Gold Standard, which affirms the quality of training and professional development programs across the United States. Related: Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Yet higher education has also kept building.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

history standards as well. Eighth-grade math scores fell three points since the last time NAEP was administered in 2017. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study. The troubling trend continued with state English and math tests aligned with the new, weaker standards.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. The post Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation appeared first on Teaching American History.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

One hard-hit district is Plumas, which encompasses Greenville, a mountain town that burned virtually to the ground in the Dixie Fire, the second-biggest blaze in state history. Nationwide, 6,444 schools are located in counties at high risk of flooding, according to a 2017 Pew Trusts report. We should not wait until disaster strikes.”.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

I am excited to join at this critical time in Digital Promise’s history as we embark on setting ambitious goals and designing bold solutions to achieve better educational outcomes for historically and systematically excluded students.”.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By revealing how ancient Mesopotamians tied feelings to specific organs, it contributes to the broader conversation about the universality and variability of emotional experiences in human history. Kipfer Journal : ZORA: Zurich Open Repository and Archive , 2017. PDF Link : uzh.ch Svärd, et al.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. This story also appeared in USA Today. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

14,385: This is the average amount spent per Black pupil in public school, compared with $14,263 per white student, according to a 2022 analysis of 2017-18 data by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Journal : Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences , 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. CPRS grew out of then-First Lady Michelle Obama’s “ Reach Higher ” initiative, and recommendations were published in a January 2017 report, “ The State of School Counseling: Revisiting the Path Forward.”

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JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. ET) on The History Channel. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest?

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history. The reason lies deep in human history. Fundamental to this work is an understanding that, genetically speaking , human races do not exist.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Prehistoric Advantage of ADHD Traits For most of human history, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. Fossil evidence indicates that our species has existed in this mode of life for at least 288,000 years, which accounts for approximately 95% of our evolutionary history. Biological Sciences , 291 (2017). Brannon, E.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

New research 1 into ancient DNA from this site has now provided groundbreaking insights into the genetic history of its inhabitants, revealing a remarkable genetic continuity over thousands of years. The Oakhurst site, which dates back over 12,000 years, provides a unique opportunity to explore southern Africa's genetic and cultural history.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The result, called the “Cyberlearning Community Report: The State of Cyberlearning and the Future of Learning with Technology,” was released on October 2, 2017 and is free to download here. It describes six “commitments” in this research community that drive the work forward and make it distinctive.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way?

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. My desk had never been cleaner in 20 years of teaching,” said social studies, history, and economics teacher Phoebe Skinner.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

So 2017, right? Graziano dug into the research history more and found studies showing that the fidgety movements that kids with ADHD sometimes do with their whole bodies can help their cognitive performance in laboratory experiments. A student plays with a fidget spinner at school. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

As our country reckons with a long and continued history of systemic racism, and communities take to the streets to protest police brutality and reinforce that Black Lives Matter, we must consider the many paths that have led us here. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Brayton is now 29, a civil engineer and mother of two, the first in her family to attend college – she graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017 – and to own a home. Ross never allowed her to give up and pushed her to apply for scholarships and attend college. Someone simply took the time to notice and believed in me.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our political reporting classes had grown out of student reporting trips we took to Cuba, where we covered emerging entrepreneurism in 2015 , the arts in 2016 , and the local environment in 2017. To engage students, she will assign student teams – essential to building community in online classes – to research history and context for lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2022

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. Creating positive school climates in which Black students’ identities are celebrated beyond Black History Month and Juneteenth. These numbers demand action.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

For example, in history, students need to interpret documents in light of their sources, seek corroboration and put them in their historical context. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking. But it is entirely applicable to the American context.

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