The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 One study quoted in a White House report found that the number of chronically absent public school students nearly doubled , from around 15 percent in the 2018-19 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-22. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The discovery of a sophisticated stone tool tradition in southern China is now forcing a major reassessment of that assumption. The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions. Instead, the majority of individuals were of predominantly European origin, maintaining local genetic and cultural traditions. 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes."

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Search for Early Symbolic Expression For decades, archaeologists have debated the origins of symbolic thought in early humans. Was it an innovation exclusive to modern humans, or did our distant relatives also engage in abstract expression? Symbolic behavior in early humans is often difficult to identify with certainty.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

“Even when they pass on, you still respect and honor them as non-human relatives. In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis. He will say that he talks to the children about the rhythms of nature, and humans’ place in the world. Authorities as disparate as UNESCO and the 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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 66.37

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The nationwide child care initiative has embraced some key aspects of Quebec’s flat-fee plan, as well as messaging from British Columbia’s “$10 a Day” child care initiative, which rolled out in 2018 to bring low-cost child care to families in the province.

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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

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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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

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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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach. Unfiltered magic.

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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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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

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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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

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 18, 2020

My fear is that students, and particularly low-income, first-generation students, will end up paying more for their educations than they would have if they’d taken out traditional loans,” said Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University. Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Kalama Intermediate School.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

May 2, 2018, Washington D.C. With that, statements that are anti-Zionist would be considered as hateful and offensive as the more traditional tropes and stereotypes that have plagued Jews and Judaism for millennia. Others separate out Israel as a legal issue or a human rights issue. Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire.

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