Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Morphological characterization of a teosinte sample at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in the United States. This race, still cultivated in parts of Brazil and Uruguay, provides a living connection between the region’s agricultural past and present. Kistler, L., Maezumi, S. de Souza, J.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe. "DNA

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration. The lab was the second of its kind when it opened in October 2018, and it has been replicated in six other Verizon Innovative Learning Schools across the country over the last year.

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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). Colonial archaeologies denigrate non-Western societies to the status of static yet living museums from which the nature of the past might be inferred.

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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. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to 2018 study by the U.S. Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

A May 22, 2018 report from the National Center for Education Statistics tracked more than 18,000 kids who attended kindergarten in 2010-11 and followed up with their parents in the fall of 2011 to see how they spent their summer. Roughly 40 percent of non-poor kids — middle class and wealthy — attended summer camp.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must provide ongoing support for students of color through college and career.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

A 2018 neuroscience study calculated that back-and-forth conversation was more important to brain development than the sheer number of words. But a new generation of researchers has been questioning whether the quantity of words really matters. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Summit Elevate, a new member of the Summit Public Schools charter network scheduled to open in Oakland, California in the fall of 2018, was also one of the 10 schools awarded a $10 million prize. RISE High (Los Angeles, California) and Vista Challenge High School (San Diego, California).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Returning families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

In a 2018 study , the anti-racist nonprofit the Southern Poverty Law Center surveyed high school seniors and social studies teachers and found that only 8 percent of the students surveyed could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War. For instance, schools in Germany are legally mandated to teach the Holocaust.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

After the private institution started struggling financially in 2018, the agency extended the period of the loan by five years; in December, it lowered the school’s monthly interest payments from $24,060 to $7,500 and offered an additional line of credit of $2 million. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Management has been denying resources from its schools, and ended 2018 spending $1 million LESS in staff salary costs for program services than in 2017,” said a press release from the Chicago Teachers Union , citing an audit it said was provided by the network’s management.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. What good is a city flush with national monuments and museums if students across town can’t access it without hopping on a bus and switching to a train to reach it? Students don’t live in schools.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. 2002) as well as contributions to anthologies and catalogs including Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture (2018), and Black Is Black Ain’t (2013). Dominique Jean-Louis is a doctoral candidate in U.S.

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Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

The demonstration workshop was part of a pilot study for the Traveling Treasures project, a transnational collaboration between the National Museum of Liberia (NMOL) and the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Project (BAHA). He later joined the Brooklyn Museum and amassed over 1,600 West African artworks.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This picture from 1978 shows the relative size of 4-year-old Grace Latimer next to a replica of Lucy on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson looks at a replica of Lucy in 2018. Dated to 3.2 Along with the 1978 discovery in Tanzania of fossilized footprint trails 3.6

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. The retention rate for first-year, full-time students rose from 63 percent before the change to 71 percent in the 2017-2018 year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Later, Jo and Innes developed their ideas and thinking into a session for the RGS-IBG's Summer conference in 2018. One particular field on the edge of the village in Snettisham in Norfolk where I lived for 12 years yielded up a golden treasure which, like Lance's brooch is now on display in the British Museum.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

Named after a beloved DJ Inaugurated in 1989 and known until 2021 as the Ericsson Globe, it was renamed after Avicii, a beloved Swedish DJ, who died in 2018. In 2018, Metallica drew a record crowd of 17,303 fans to the Globe. km) from the Globe, just outside Stockholm City Museum and is no more than 9.8 in (25 cm) in diameter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

DeSantis, has grown increasingly skeptical that the class will spread to other Kentucky schools, even as her politically liberal district doubles down on a commitment to African American history it made as part of a curriculum revamp in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One, for example, was: “Describe two ways that people care for the violin at the museum that show the violin is valuable.”. BERT is a natural language processing model developed at Google in 2018 (yes, they found it by Googling). When they tested their robo-graders, the accuracy was poor. They happened upon BERT.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Brooks, “Reconsidering Politics in the Study of American Abolitionists,” Journal of the Civil War Era 8:2 (June 2018): 291-317; W. Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day. Suggested reading: Corey M. Stephanie M. in Marc Simpson, ed.,

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She is the author of Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2018

A sculpture by artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, part of the Nkyinkyim Installation, of enslaved people in chains is shown after entering The National Memorial for Peace and Justice on April 20, 2018 in Montgomery, Al. A field trip to this much-needed museum should be required for every middle and high school student in U.S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed that silk played a significant role in sacrificial rituals conducted by the Shu State during the late Shang Dynasty (1600–1100 BCE). The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly. Guolong, L.,

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Anthropology.net

MAY 10, 2025

These wooden spears, seen here at the Schöningen Research Museum, have now been dated to between 200,000 and 300,000 years old.JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES This subtle shift in chronology has profound consequences. Evidence for close-range hunting by last interglacial Neanderthals.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Hearst Museum of Anthropology taken by colleague Linda Waterfield. He continued on this trajectory, combining Native American studies, art history, and museum studies during his graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he studied with, among others, George Stocking, Nancy Munn, and Raymond Fogelson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Since 2018, a group of Duck Hill teens and community leaders have been tackling the climate-related problems that their state and local government neglect or haven’t had the capacity to fix. Watkins joined Creek Rangers in 2018 through her grandmother, a local organizer and alderwoman. She says it was eye-opening.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In a 2018 report to the White House, the National Council on Disability said that specialized charter schools are not automatically appropriate for all students with the same disability. Under federal law, there are no hard and fast rules around how long a student can stay in a separate setting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. Removing racist history books will be harder than shuttling Confederate monuments to the backs of museums.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That typology, as they call it, includes activism, pedagogy and the kind of knowledge acquired in hands-on humanities work in libraries and museums, journalism and public policy. There is a linguistic limit, though; the journal only runs articles in English.

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