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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Anthropology.net

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. In A New Approach to Human Social Evolution 1 , neuroscientist and anthropologist Jorge A. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture.

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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

Sapiens

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management.

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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

ED Surge

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. The only score that surpassed 2019 results was Louisianas performance in fourth-grade reading. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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As Apprenticeships Expand in Early Childhood, These States Are Training the Field’s Future Leaders

ED Surge

Back in 2019, Brenda Hagan, then a preschool program owner who had been hired as apprenticeship coordinator for the Kentucky Governors Office of Early Childhood, sent around a survey to early childhood program leaders, gauging their interest in apprenticeships.

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Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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