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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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. Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. ET) on The History Channel.

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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

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. The number of black students in the freshman class jumped from 587 to 889 from 2017 to this fall, a 51 percent increase.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Concurrently, civil rights activists in Mississippi participated in a series of “Wade-Ins” to integrate public beaches, “Read-Ins” to desegregate public libraries, and “Pray-Ins” at all-white churches. History this Week. The History Channel. University of Illinois Press, 1995 “Freedom Summer, 1964.” Jackson, MS.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide. And we can say yes.”.

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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.” With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” History teacher Caroline Billings embraced the changes. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. points higher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Recognizing the dearth of literature written from a nonwhite perspective, Connolly was quick to add dozens of titles to the library. Beginning in 2017, the office’s leader, Colin Rose, made cultural proficiency a component of every school’s annual accountability reports — essentially forcing schools to address bias and inequity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. and abroad.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. In late 2017, she was laid off. After her pay rose by just $1.60 They picked classes and planned a schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. billion under the 2017 budget. “We billion on elementary and secondary education.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius. I was going to be the founding history teacher at a little school in Metro Detroit! This is how I felt about being hired to teach history! That was a busy time! My space became the lobby/hallway.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

At the new Dillon Middle School, eighth-graders in Teresa Stephens’ South Carolina history class looked to the future of their community. “On But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books. They need a lot more, she said. We have a lot of potential.”.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The suicide rate for children and young adults, ages 10 to 24, rose by 56 percent from 2007 and 2017 and is now the second leading cause of death among teenagers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The school’s makeshift library spills from one dedicated classroom into an adjacent hallway.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without — a problem known as the “homework gap.”. The EBS slice of spectrum is further obscured by a history that actually predates the internet. That matters. Here’s why. “But

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Partly because of these and related efforts, the number of teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups more than doubled over the last 30 years—from about 327,000 in the late 1980s to 810,000 in the 2017-18 school year. Normally, when you are looking at history, the voices that are centered are those of landowning white men.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. In 2017, Ralston had been the one to pick up James “JC” Cavitt, who came running into her office as an undergraduate on the verge of quitting his first job on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 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. The library is old — and it kind of stinks. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” It just means we have books for those readers, too. This alarmed librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. George Washington Carver High School, located in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward community, is known for its long history of educating African American students.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?” Reading: Susan Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 2012): pp.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 10, 2024

history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? The recent attacks draw on the same language used over the past decade in attempts to ban people’s history in K–12 classrooms in Arizona, Arkansas, and Indiana. Wear Teach Banned History buttons to promote awareness of how the current legislation bans more than books.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Cambridge University Press published her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War in 2017. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

There is a very long and very clear history of scholarship that shows that many common approaches have minimal or no effect on student writing growth, and it is so widely disliked by students and ignored by many teachers that Brock Haussamen (2003) famously called it the skunk at the garden party of the language arts (p. Grammar alive!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

Speaking about the courts stay, Walters, through spokeswoman Grace Kim, said in a statement: The Bible has been a cornerstone of our nations history and education for generations. But nothing is simple about the history of the Bible in Americas schools. Bibles, he noted, are accessible to students through the library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa started kindergarten at Ana Hernandez Usera elementary school in 2017, the year Hurricane Maria struck the island. Since 2017, natural disasters have pounded the island — decimating homes, crippling the power grid and gutting infrastructure. We’ve never seen such a need in the history of Puerto Rico.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of the practices I have personally advocated for on Cult of Pedagogy, like calling students by their preferred names and pronouns and teaching accurate history , would likely get a teacher flagged by this policy, and right now I’m not sure what the best course of action is when it comes to these practices. So where to go from here?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

When the #MeToo movement erupted in 2017, toppling prominent men in Hollywood, journalism and academia, tradeswomen wondered if it would prompt changes within their industry. A month or two later, Carman invited all the women to a meeting at a public library in Tukwila, Washington, a Seattle suburb.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. Many, like Luís, came without their parents; Suffolk County received more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors in the 2017 fiscal year , according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The cost of crossing into the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

She used it to buy books and computers for the library, white boards and printers for classrooms, to beef up a robotics program and build a multipurpose sports court for her students. Yabucoa, a small town in southeast Puerto Rico, was one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. Department of Education grant for $10.5

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