Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.) Related: What 2018 PISA international rankings tell us about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the percentage of white students has steadily decreased nationwide in recent decades — from 54 percent in 2009 to 47 percent in 2018 — nearly 80 percent of public school teachers are white, according to the most recent federal survey. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. These are educators.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Their findings showed no evidence of a significant population decline before European arrival, instead suggesting that the islanders maintained their traditions and population levels until contact. This case study provides valuable lessons on sustainable living and the resilience of human communities. 1 Davis, D. DiNapoli, R.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. 1 in 5 — how many classes with absent teachers went unfilled in schools in 2018-19, before the pandemic. Even before Covid, the U.S. It just wasn’t working anymore.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, more than 1,600 students who had failed freshman English or Algebra I were randomly assigned to one of two versions of summer school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. Related: Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. Students love this activity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Two students died by suicide, in fall 2017 and summer 2018, said Beth DeJongh, an associate professor of pharmacy practice who knew both and had one in class at the time. Nor should they: “A lot of what people are calling ‘mental health struggles’ are actually figuring out this human experience and figuring out how to be an adult,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We did, in fact, see more communication.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

programs, especially in the humanities, to address twenty-first century needs — remains a matter of concern. If traditional liberal arts colleges do not make sufficient efforts to accommodate the “new majority” of first-generation college students, students of color, adults and veterans, then many will be in danger of closing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. The Maine study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. percent of the students at traditional discipline schools. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. And traditional high school degrees are more likely to lead to college, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But students aren’t customers, faculty shoot back, and faculty are not employees who can be managed; under long-held tradition, they share responsibility for governing the universities and colleges where they work. Those administrators increasingly include presidents who did not come up through the traditional faculty ranks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: In 2018, Byrne and her colleagues decided to play detective using predictive analytics, which tracks student data to predict who is likely to graduate or not. In the spring of 2018, DataKind returned a list of more than 1,100 rising seniors who were at risk of dropping out of school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Living with special needs is no laughing matter, but hyperactive comedian Hart, who also co-wrote the script, used his humor to humanize millions of people who are rendered invisible by our beliefs about who is smart and who should be employed. for those without, according to a 2018 U.S. People with special needs are normal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

To get from design to actual product involves using advanced computer software plus a waterjet, a traditional manufacturing machine. There were about 360,000 hires in January 2018, an increase of 52,000 over the year before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s a sort of Amazon Prime approach to higher education that lets majors in the humanities and other disciplines, without leaving their home campuses, “stream” classes, often taught by star faculty from top universities, in fields such as coding. Hundreds of schools are going to go out of business if we don’t figure this out,” said Docking.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Most of students in the class were ninth and 10th graders. ” Oakland created a daily class for black boys as part of the regular day at traditional public high schools and initially financed it through private foundation grants. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here, we take a look at jobs that, to the extent that workforce and automation research can predict the future, will continue to depend largely on uniquely human skills, thus remaining relatively robot-proof. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. Over 80% of students surveyed in a 2018 study cited financial stress as a key driver of anxiety and depression. Despite our focus on diversity, we lag in student diversity relative to other similar disciplines.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. Unfortunately, traditional mechanisms for getting the word out about our work limit our overall visibility and impact. Here’s mine, slated for tomorrow. ].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Yesenia Lopez, a social-emotional paraprofessional who staffs the room, said it’s a tradition among students who use the space to leave their mark, literally, so future students can see how many of their peers came here before them. in the 2018-19 year at the school. This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But when the authors of a 2018 research article searched a database of 150 schools’ curricula for climate-related keywords, they returned zero results. At UCSF, students including Colin Baylen, Karly Hampshire and Nuzhat Islam have formed an interdisciplinary student group called Human Health + Climate Change.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. Our analysis focused on non-charter districts in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. The academic cost is not equally shared. Most get nothing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. I’ll sometimes smile, look them in the eyes and respond sweetly, “Human. Growing up in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: There are a number of changes that must be made immediately to offset this growing crisis: College governance is weak and ineffective and must be immediately adapted to meet new oversight demands, with the faculty playing a more important role in creating an innovative educational enterprise.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Department of Health and Human Services. They need it,” Giebel says of the bouncing and fidgeting she now observes constantly during classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

In 2018, in an attempt to ease the housing affordability crisis, Bozeman approved an “inclusionary zoning” policy that required builders to include affordable homes in their developments or pay a fee. It’s hard to think,” said James, a sixth grader, of the district’s traditional middle school. Credit: Neal Morton/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. Choose as many as you like.

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