Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

In the long arc of human history, what makes a settlement persist? Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , the study draws on data from over 47,000 houses spanning nearly 3,000 archaeological sites and 10,000 years of human history. The researchers are careful to avoid deterministic interpretations.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

A Jawbone from the Edge of the Map Long before shipping lanes crossed the Taiwan Strait, and long before Taiwan was an island at all, an archaic human jawbone settled into the mud of the ancient seabed. ” The Most Elusive of Human Relatives The Denisovans have always been strange occupants of the human family tree. .

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. However, recent research challenges this narrative, emphasizing the pivotal role of human interactions and demographic dynamics in this monumental change.​

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

After plowing five years and $100 million into the effort, the IBM team admitted defeat in 2017. “We The debate is about the best mix — what are AI’s most effective roles in helping students learn, and what aspects of teaching should remain indelibly human no matter how powerful AI becomes?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

New research, published in Nature 1 by an international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, delves into the lives of two neighboring Avar communities in Lower Austria. Such results hold a lot of potential for future research in various disciplines." Related Research **Pohl, W.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

During the African Humid Period (14,500–5,000 years ago), this region supported thriving human populations. Now, an international team of researchers 1 has uncovered the first ancient genomes from this long-lost ecosystem, shedding new light on an ancient North African lineage that has all but disappeared. . ©

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. ” Measuring Inequality in Mudbrick and Stone The researchers turned to one of the most consistent archaeological indicators of wealth: house size. It reminds us that inequality has always been negotiable.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

“The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. A consistent body of research has found that high school grades are more predictive of how a student will do in college.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 13, 2024

However, emerging research 1 suggests that this trait may have been a significant evolutionary advantage in prehistoric times, particularly in hunter-gatherer societies. The Prehistoric Advantage of ADHD Traits For most of human history, Homo sapiens lived as hunter-gatherers. That means there’s an evolutionary mismatch.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time. But research from the last 30 years shows that young children are far more capable in engaging in reasoning that we once thought.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Researchers analyzing 22 ancient feline remains from 14 sites across China have reshaped the timeline of cat domestication in the region. Image credit: Zheng H, Liu Y, Chi M.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

But in the upland regions of Warner Valley, Oregon, a different kind of evidence is telling the story of early human diets: microscopic starch granules trapped in the cracks of bedrock metates. Interestingly, the researchers found evidence that some metates had been reused over long periods. A., & Pavlik, B.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Ancient Hearths of Fuente del Salín Fire has long been a cornerstone of human existence, providing warmth, protection, and a means to cook food. Additionally, the researchers found high concentrations of manganese oxides in the combustion features. However, Fuente del Salín offers a different perspective.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2018

Sitting in a circle, a group of researchers and caregivers of people with autism spectrum disorder weave blue and orange yarn around a circular peg board. One parent describes the challenges she faces in finding the right research and resources to support her child. “I An Interactive Vision Wall. Mapping the System With String.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Research suggests that when technology is effectively used in schools, access may help to bridge educational and social gaps (Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010; Eccles, 2009; National Science Foundation, 2017). The majority of students said that they very often or often used technology for research, writing papers, and taking tests.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. The researchers combed through the physical traces left behind by ancient households—47,000 of them, to be precise—spanning over 1,700 sites across the globe. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. The failure rate was 74 percent. Source: IES , February 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Louisiana legislature established an Early Childhood Education Fund in 2017 with the goal of incentivizing localities to raise funding to expand child care access by matching local funds at a 2:1 rate. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment. For every $2 a parish generates, the state adds $1.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Some research seems to back this idea up — a study from 2017 found that, after an innate interest in science, women in STEM-related fields were more likely to point to playing or spending time outdoors as the spark for their initial interest in STEM than other activities.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was an assistant and then associate professor at the New School for Social Research from 2000-2011. She also served as the chair of the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (2017-2020) and co-chaired the Presidential Task Force on Womens Advancement. Htun received her Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Recent research by Smith et al., published in Journal of Human Evolution 1 , delves into the comparative morphology of the inner ears of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus , uncovering intriguing differences that illuminate aspects of their behavior, ecology, and evolutionary trajectories.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Only a human tutor, sitting next to a student during homework time, would be able to figure out the proper hint that an individual student needs in a particular moment. To build the crowdsourced hint system, the researchers paid 13 teachers to write hints. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. So 2017, right? But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. Some schools banned them from classrooms well before researchers had the proof.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. “We The Penn State researchers analyzed an existing U.S. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Education researchers are trying to come up with different ways to measure success. Related: Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school. Jackson declined to identify strong or weak schools by name because the research is in early stages. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Wisconsin Scholars Grant recipients were 42 percent more likely to declare a STEM major than their peers, the study found. The average starting salary for math and science graduates was $59,368 for the class of 2017, according to a 2017 report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

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