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The Ocean Floor Jawbone That’s Redrawing Denisovan History

Anthropology.net

Still, the geography offers clues. Nobody Knows — Yet. The fossil defies easy dating. Seawater had long since stripped away its collagen, eliminating possibilities for radiocarbon analysis. During Ice Age glacial periods, sea levels dropped, and Taiwan was connected to mainland Asia. Suggested Related Research Chen, F., link] Slon, V.,

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

Journalist Natalie Wexler, author of the 2019 book The Knowledge Gap, said the study ought to spark a re-evaluation of the usual approach to reading comprehension in schools, which frequently focuses on skills, such as asking students to find the main idea and make inferences. “The

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. She closed, at 1 a.m., forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own.

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It’s not about the money, money, money – until it is. Teacher recruitment and the need for bursaries

Becoming a History Teacher

There is a shortage of physics, maths, geography teachers (add or delete as appropriate) therefore we need to recognise the market forces at work that draw them away from choosing teaching as a career. Further reading: DfE (2019). This is an argument we hear time and time again. Schools are not a market. Our children deserve better.

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OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem

The Hechinger Report

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education.

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An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in

The Hechinger Report

At each school, men were at least 2 percentage points more likely than women to be accepted in both 2019 and 2020. Those could include major, geography or high school. These include Boston, Bowdoin and Swarthmore colleges; Brown, Denison, Pepperdine, Pomona, Vanderbilt and Wesleyan universities; and the University of Miami.

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