Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Credit: Flaviane Malaquias Costa Elizabeth Ann Veasey, a professor at USP and co-author of the study, explained: “We traveled from the remote past to the present, tracing a lineage from archaeological remains to extant maize varieties still being cultivated by traditional peoples.” Kistler, L., Maezumi, S. de Souza, J.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2018

SXSWEDU 2018 wrapped up last week and once again I was struck by the wealth of information, experience, and innovation being shared across so many sessions. The post SXSWEDU 2018 Wrap-up: Systems Change for Adult Learners? As usual, my focus was on adult learners and workforce development. It’s not about a single piece of technology.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

These studies offer additional context for understanding how meteoritic iron fit into early metallurgy and how it compares to other ancient metalworking traditions. 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."

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — The ExCITe Center (@excitecenter) July 17, 2018. — Carly Croman (@carly_croman) July 17, 2018. — Sunanna T Chand (@SunannaC) July 17, 2018. This is the path to true change and growth!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

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.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. The radiocarbon dating places these tools firmly within the Early Epigravettian, aligning with known sites across Italy.

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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. Related Research de Barros Damgaard, P., Rasmussen, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In some states, it has continued to worsen, even while improving slightly for other students, as in Arizona, where chronic absenteeism for Native students rose from 22 percent in 2018-2019 to 45 percent in 2022-2023. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

Credit: Gre Fılla Excavation / Özlem Ekinbaş Can The Gre Fılla Site: A Window into Prehistoric Innovation Nestled in the upper Tigris Valley, Gre Fılla has been under excavation since 2018. ​ a) The front and backsides of the vitrified material. c) Chisel axe.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These artifacts stand out for their sophistication, demonstrating a clear departure from earlier Middle Paleolithic traditions. The tools' makers were not just chipping away at stones haphazardly; they were following a refined tradition, optimizing each flake for efficiency. What Comes Next? PLoS ONE , 6(11), e28239.

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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. The coronavirus-induced shift of learning off campus was dramatic, but it accelerated a trend that has been growing over the past several years.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

While traditional approaches often emphasize additional English Language Arts (ELA) instruction, studies show that building background knowledge through content-rich subjects is far more effective. Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years. Technology in schools can be a critical tool in advancing equity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Yaritza Garcia, a 22-year-old psychology major at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, said she wanted to supplement traditional therapy services with a peer counseling program. It was named in honor of former student Sean Locke, who died by suicide in 2018.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

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. With over 570 federally recognized Tribes in the U.S., E., & Peacock, E.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. In other words, 64 percent of the students in a flipped classroom tend to surpass the average score in a traditional classroom. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It’s a finding that got less attention than it deserved following the recent 2018 Strada-Gallup Alumni Survey , which reports on new college graduates’ experiences with mentors during their time as students. Today, a whopping 74 percent of college students have at least one “non-traditional” characteristic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates. For too long, work-based education has been a disadvantaged stepchild, taking a backseat to traditional classroom learning. The effort is worth it.

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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 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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We may not know how much wider, though, because methods and data we’ve relied on for decades to measure student progress — standardized tests and traditional grades — may not be available this year. In Spartanburg County , districts adopted a continuous improvement model, piloting the approach in the 2018-19 school year.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Her resume is too long to list here, but she’s been a special ed teacher, the 2018 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, a mentor to many, an award-winner, and a leader in too many education initiatives to name. I can’t think of a better person to dig into this topic with me than Kimberly Eckert.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

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. Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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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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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. I see the Instagram accounts as perhaps the new platform that college students are using, but I think it follows a tradition of using social media platforms to get the word out about what’s happening on your campus,” Bailey said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In New York City, only 54 percent of students graduated from high school within six years at the city’s 50 transfer schools, which is the name the city uses because students who fall behind “transfer” from traditional high schools, where 83 percent of students managed to graduate within six years. Most finish far sooner.) They let you eat.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense. Since 2018, just 54 percent of people who attended WIOA-approved programs became employed at all after completing their program.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. While a total of 119,000 people succeeded in getting two types of manufacturing certificates through 2018, we don’t know how many failed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Beginning in 2018, Parker-Varney teachers met weekly with Joseph to construct the new system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The retention rate for first-year, full-time students rose from 63 percent before the change to 71 percent in the 2017-2018 year. And, having added a new campus in nearby Plano in 2018, school leaders are searching for the next site. billion in 2018 as technology-driven change increases the demand for more flexible classroom space.

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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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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6 "Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens " Nature Human Behaviour , 2018. Researchers analyzed plant wax biomarkers, stable isotopes, phytoliths, and pollen to reconstruct the ancient climate. Their conclusion? DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0394-4 1 Ben Arous, E.,

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2018

These were just some of the challenges addressed by innovative startups from across the western United States in the semi-finals of the 2018 Global EdTech Startup Awards (GESA), co-sponsored by Digital Promise and GSVlabs, and the Michelson Foundation on November 15. What if teachers could organize their classes with the help of an app?

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