Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. History provides ample evidence of this dynamic. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Since 2019, HT94 has been hosted by over 150 universities and colleges around the world, and the UMP offers host institutions an installation kit that supports visitors interpretive experiences, while encouraging each host site to connect the exhibit to local issues and community interests.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

Since 2019 there’s been a growing number of attacks — both verbal and physical — against teachers, administrators, school board officials, librarians and even students, particularly those who are LGBTQ+, Black, Hispanic or Asian. Roy Cooper created a task force in 2019 to add more teachers of color across the state.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. The work is guided by cultural success coaches — school employees who help families address the kind of challenges that keep students from coming to school. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. A recent study, The Genomic Portrait of the Picene Culture 1 , published in Genome Biology , attempts to decode their past through ancient DNA analysis. Ravasini et al.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle – Nature, 29 Sept 2019) At first glance, the maps suggest that both ideological tribes inhabit moral universes that aren’t merely different theyre almost entirely opposite. Credit : A. Credit : A. Credit : A.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. “It shows that it works.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. for adults and children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Originals & Reworks is to try painting those 2000 years of history, to try reviving those musics, almost forgotten, our grand-parents and parents got married to, henna on their hands . The artist Lo Nataf describes his work on his social media as follows: To paint the album cover for Ya Hasra: Jewish-Tunisian Jewels.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. A Muslim lens. A male lens.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging. The remaining 58 percent represent an untapped resource for higher education. And we are proud that U.S.

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, authors of the 2019 book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ”, define deeper learning as “the understanding of not just the surface features of a subject or discipline, but the underlying structures or ideas.” The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. No internet.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. The discrepancy between our study and known rates drew our attention to cultural barriers to reporting violence—and the need to consider how cultural norms impact women’s lives.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. Complex History of Admixture Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals Authors : Vernot, B., & Akey, J. Journal : PNAS , 2019. DOI : 10.1101/gr.099388.109

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations. ” The Thorin Neanderthal (Top) View of the mandible in situ when found in September 2019. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In December 2019, Barbers Hill Independent School District in Mont Belvieu, Texas, a suburb east of Houston, decided to begin enforcing a dress code policy that’s been on the books for thirty years. When dress codes reinforce white norms, being black becomes a violation. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2022

The suicide rate among 13- to 30-year-olds is growing fastest in the Black community, rising over 50 percent between 2010 and 2019. Creating positive school climates in which Black students’ identities are celebrated beyond Black History Month and Juneteenth. We can create a culture of care for Black youth and all young people.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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