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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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

It exemplifies how ancient populations balanced coexistence and diversity, paving the way for future exploration of genetic and cultural intersections in human history. Related Research **Pohl, W. “The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822.” ” Cornell University Press. ” Nature Communications.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. “This shared Neanderthal ancestry marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern humans outside Africa,” remarked Johannes Krause, the study’s senior author.

Humanities 98

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. And every day, I had to ask myself: If some students missed class today, and others would miss class tomorrow, how could I possibly ensure that every student truly learns?

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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. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Examines late Neanderthal survival in Italy before the arrival of Homo sapiens.

Archaeology 95

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Rethinking Early Ironworking The presence of meteoritic iron in Polish burial sites adds another layer to the complex history of early iron use in Europe. Archaeometry, 50 (2), 232-237. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00385.x 1475-4754.2008.00385.x Johnson, D. The role of meteoritic iron in early ironworking technologies." DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.010

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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. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2 Examines the genetic history of steppe populations, including the Scythians, Sarmatians, and early Turkic groups.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

History “may cause them to not see the investment in a public school education as a good use of their time,” said Dallas Pettigrew, director of Oklahoma University’s Center for Tribal Social Work and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico Mexico War.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In 2018, I demonstrated the presence of female lineages in the Early Iron Age record from France , as Caroline Trmeauds big-data analysis of burials from the North Alpine region again revealed consistent high levels of female burial wealth.

Archaeology 111

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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. Nonetheless, she was watching.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. The tests were administered in 2022.)

Economics 145

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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. Virtue Ethics and the Practice of History: Native Americans and Archaeologists Along the San Pedro Valley of Arizona."

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

For this reason, indigenous cultures worldwide, throughout history and prehistory, have viewed children as 'active agents'—mediators between this world and the entities inhabiting the natural world, the underworld, and the cosmos as a whole."​ Journal of Archaeological Science , 137, 105542.​

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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. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2024

Discovered in 2018 in the Shanidar Cave of Iraqi Kurdistan, her remains have sparked fascination and intrigue among researchers seeking to unravel the mysteries of human evolution. Courtesy Netflix The Neanderthal Legacy: Insights into Ancient Human History Shanidar Z's story is just one chapter in the rich tapestry of Neanderthal history.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

One compelling reason for bringing this type of research into the classroom is that according to psychologists, family histories can link with our ongoing psychological ‘project of the self’ and might have a therapeutic benefit for our wellbeing (Nicholson, 2018). 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This serves as a stark reminder of how fragile our connection to deep history is. Conclusion: A New Chapter in Human History The rainforest discovery in Côte d'Ivoire is more than just a fascinating footnote in our species' story—it is a fundamental shift in how we perceive early human adaptability. Blinkhorn, J. Elliott, S.,

Humanities 52

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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. But James Ramos, who is the first Native American to serve in the California legislature, doesn’t think the law goes far enough.

Tradition 145

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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.

Archiving 137

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E. Southern Oral History Program Collection, October 11, 1976. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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. Angela Richards graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2018. The University of Minnesota-Morris, for instance, has gone further.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 18, 2021

Since launching in March 2018, MY World 360 ° has screened 31 immersive stories at UN events around the world. Leading up to the SDG Global Festival of Action , we’re thrilled to announce a new MY World 360 ° playlist featuring immersive storytelling and design projects from across the globe.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

And the California State University system as a whole is one of the biggest remote educators in the country; more than 150,000 students took online courses there in the 2018-19 academic year. A history with online education made this spring’s transition easier for some schools.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A 2018 national survey found that K-3 teachers spend an average of 89 minutes per day on ELA and 57 minutes on math, but only 18 minutes on science and 16 minutes on social studies.

Social Studies 52

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

In their study of almost 3,000 students across 30 schools, researchers found that systematically building background knowledge through science instruction improved reading comprehension not just in science texts but also in various subjects, including history and literature. percent for English language arts and 25.3

Social Studies 52

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In 2018 she published a memoir, Abundant Faith, Secrets to Plenty: Traveling on Lifes Journey (Westbow Press). Reid School, with all of the history it held, and all the community support it offered, was closed and torn down. Ellen Tucker, a longtime blog contributor for Teaching American History. The post Implementing Brown v.

Education 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. 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. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo.

Education 144

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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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.

Charter School 145

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it.

Social Justice 132

Social Justice K-12 High School Tradition 132

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2019

It wasn’t until my first day of high school, in history, that a window of understanding was opened for me. The teacher used a curriculum from Facing History and Ourselves , an educational nonprofit that provides teachers with tools to engage their students in examining bigotry. .” Sign up for our newsletter.

Heritage 106

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2019

The answer is complicated, as is the history of immigration in the U.S. For example, Facebook became a corporate supporter and partner of our work in 2018 with a grant through their Community Boost program. First, many of our program participants are bilingual but prefer to learn in their native tongue.

Economics 120

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018). The Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy Framework , developed by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, is an equity model that can support the development and evaluation of an anti-racist curriculum that celebrates the identities, histories, and accomplishments of culturally and historically marginalized people.

Cultures 149

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The history of scientific exploration is plagued by the explicit biases of those who perform research in their institutions and therefore hold power. As of 2018, membership was still only 9 percent female. History proves otherwise. Black Lives Matter, demanding conversations around racism at research institutions.

Teaching 118

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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