Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. Patterned Metalwork Before Damascus Steel? DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00385.x

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Thesis : University of Calgary , 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. The work is guided by cultural success coaches — school employees who help families address the kind of challenges that keep students from coming to school. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. What the Bones Reveal Beyond the tools, the cave's faunal remains tell a story of survival and adaptation.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. The results paint a complex picture of migration, cultural blending, and long-distance connections. But where did they come from? Rasmussen, S.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

They were the remains of animals deeply intertwined with the histories and cultures of Indigenous communities. Lakota elder Milo Yellow Hair looks over bison skulls stored in the CU Museum of Natural History. Horses, bison, and other creatures hold deep cultural and spiritual significance. “You care for horses.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018. “It shows that it works.”

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But every now and then, a new discovery forces a rewrite of this narrative, reminding us that human history is more intricate than we once thought. This suggests that different groups across Arabia may have been developing their own localized traditions rather than adhering to a single, uniform technological culture. What Comes Next?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms.

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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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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

CFP: Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases kskordal Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:32 Image Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. Proposal deadline is February 10, 2025. as well as global antiquity, India, China, Africa, Americas, etc.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. 2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı W. Crist et al.,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cultivating a Culture One day during my English class, Khalil, one of my sixth grade students, created a live soundtrack to accompany my lesson on mentor sentences. The combination of our classroom culture and reading growth achievement earned our class the 2018 Southwest Ohio Teach For America Classroom of the Year Award.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. Booker’s interest was piqued after 16-year-old New Jersey wrestler, Andrew Johnson, was ordered by a referee in 2018 to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

November 2018. For them, the barriers to converting Chinese expatriates are cultural instead of ontological: not a matter of different kinds of souls, as described by some other Zambian Christians, but rather of linguistic misunderstanding. Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia. Jehovahs Witnesses are a highly centralized organization.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the few weeks of the World Cup in 2018, the games were inescapable, as they will be again this November and December. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We initiate prospective faculty members into a culture of snobbism and hierarchy. Integrate into graduate preparation knowledge about the history, philosophy and culture of U.S. ’s ‘culture of snobbism and hierarchy’ appeared first on The Hechinger Report. higher education.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At this moment in history, we must acknowledge that the United States has not risen to the great challenges brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. We must make certain that all students see themselves as scientists, and that all students in all grades receive a robust, culturally relevant science education. PALO ALTO, Calif. —

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Archaeologists do not in any noteworthy way direct armies, shape economies, write laws, or imprison or free people from bondage (McGuire, 2018). style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-4" h z u Archaeology of power and identity: the political use of the discipline. can be derived along the axis of power.

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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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JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Unlike their Finnish counterparts, Japanese teens improved upon their 2018 PISA scores in every subject despite the Covid-19 disruption. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here are a few models for how to bring together the educators in your community to grow your local culture of maker learning: Maker Educator Meetups. This year’s Edcamp: Maker Promise was hosted as a pre-conference session to the 2018 California STEAM Symposium. The format of MEMs can vary and depend on the needs of your group.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Broader Implications for Ice Age Research The study builds on a growing body of research into the genetic and cultural diversity of Ice Age populations. The genomic history of southeastern Europe." Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy. Current Biology, 31(5), 1110-1120.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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