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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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

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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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.

Archaeology 67

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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.

American History 108

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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

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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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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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.

Humanities 141

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2024

A horse herder chases a white horse in Inner Mongolia, China in 2019. Image credit: © Ludovic Orlando) A Revolution in Human Mobility The domestication of horses significantly impacted human history, enabling long-distance travel, the transportation of heavy loads, and the ability to fight while mounted. 1 Librado, P., Chauvey, L.,

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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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Artifacts Heritage Archaeology Cultures 66

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.

Anthropology 96

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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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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

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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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit.

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Anthropology Humanities History Economics 96

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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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.

Teaching 102

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness. When students learn about history, they see social skills in action.

Elementary School 59

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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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.

Cultures 104

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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.

Local History 111

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Fortunately, mass teacher resignations and retirements largely haven’t come to pass, even as the pandemic nears the end of its third year. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

The underlying truth that human and natural life must come first, together, has been validated through centuries of history, here and on every other continent. It’s not impossible: In 2019, the European Union issued 45 conclusions for adoption by member states , all based upon the human development premise of Human Ecology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

At a time when many of the nation’s public-facing institutions are grappling with what it means to become anti-racist, an increasing number of colleges and universities are finally acknowledging that white supremacy has been encoded into their land, built into their environment, and culture.

Leadership 114

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For most of history, humans knew and named no more than four taste qualities: sweet, bitter, salty, and sour. References in English language sources to the four traditional tastes (top) and to umami (bottom) for the period 1909-2019. In the West, scientific interest in umami took off only after 1980. See the graph.)

Humanities 52

Humanities History Tradition Cultures 52

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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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.

K-12 101

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2020

District Court Judge Allison Burroughs rejected claims that Harvard discriminated against Asian American applicants in 2019, Students for Fair Admissions took the matter to the court of appeals. And we’ll omit essential voices pushed to the margins throughout our history. This has enriched the academic experience of all students.

Civics 76

Civics Social Studies History Cultures 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It was a huge culture shock coming from … a close, tight-knit community, to a place where people aren’t as accepting,” she said.

Tradition 133

Tradition Cultures High School Middle School 133

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

Herb Childress (2019) in The Adjunct Underclass , ends his book with “The Academic Career Calibration Protocol” which is basically a quiz to determine and predict your academic career outcome, and it includes things like gender, age you completed your PhD, where you went to school, how well known your supervisor is. Duke University Press.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

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

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.

Charter School 145

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

Education 87

Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 87

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The conversation that morning in December 2019 followed the lead of the seven or eight most vocal students. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. This story also appeared in NBC News. Amy Stuart Wells, professor at Teachers College. Its students weren’t fooled by the elegant name.

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