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When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Frontiers in Psychology , 16. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations. Further Reading & Related Research Tattersall, I. Palgrave Macmillan. Berwick, R. 1 Miyagawa, S.,

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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays.

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Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

The Hechinger Report

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Even modest gains like that are hard to achieve, said Navarro Chandler, a dean at the college.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. A state law mandated full-day kindergarten starting in the 2017-18 school year.

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

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. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! According to U.S.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

About 6 percent of today’s immigrants are children and 26 percent of all children in the country in 2017 had at least one immigrant parent , according to the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to studying migration and immigration trends. percent in 2017 , according to the Migration Policy Institute.