The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

For this reason, indigenous cultures worldwide, throughout history and prehistory, have viewed children as 'active agents'—mediators between this world and the entities inhabiting the natural world, the underworld, and the cosmos as a whole."​ ​ Children's footprints from Basura Cave, 14,000 years ago. Credit: Prof.

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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

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. for adults and children.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. My desire to know exploded.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. The human brain is constantly mishearing and misreading things. Choose from our newsletters.

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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. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Palgrave Macmillan.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

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: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

But the research process is slow and methodical, and finally in 2019, there is more conclusive evidence that the whirring lobes of plastic are harmful to learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

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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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. Neither should we countenance a grim, deterministic view of human ability and allow schools to be mere sorting mechanisms.

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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. than with the Altai Neanderthal. 1 Sikora, M., Feuerborn, T.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In the paper, Willingham traces the history of teaching critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

A paper proposal for a fall conference was due two days after the announcement was made and she spent the week scrambling to find another college where her credits as an art history major would transfer, not to mention ensuring that the finances would work. They would say, ‘You’re anti-Wells.’” Then their school suddenly closed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Choose as many as you like. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Colleges in Crisis. We’re treading water and there’s no raft.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

So in the fall of 2019 and the winter of 2020, I worked with a talented team of videographers and producers to fan out to schools across the country—in Indiana, California, Florida and Massachusetts—to capture short documentary videos of classroom teachers. But too often, we simply avoid discussing topics related to identity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In recent history, roughly half of first-year college students have been sent to remedial classes in math, English or both, according a 2016 Center for American Progress report. Leave this field empty if you're human: Policymakers have been trying to fix the system. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. By 2019, the state allocated its first dollars into the fund, and began matching local funds dollar for dollar. In 2024, this was one of several pandemic-era investments that the state was able to continue funding when ARPA money ran out. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. Secret Service in 2019. Most had a history of school disciplinary infactionsactions. On May 24, the unfathomable happened. While there is no single profile, most school shooters were victims of bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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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. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

But it was publicly presented in Toronto in May 2019 at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. “These students are establishing a work history and it signals to employers that you show up on time, take direction and have the capacity for work.” Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. An estimated “1.8

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2024

The New Timeline of Horse Domestication Recent research 1 has upended previous assumptions about the domestication of horses, revealing that humans first domesticated these animals around 2200 B.C., A horse herder chases a white horse in Inner Mongolia, China in 2019. a full millennium later than traditionally believed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It comes from a wide range of education technology products, assessments and other sources — there’s data from reading programs, math programs, state tests, daily quizzes, student history and more, each one a single puzzle piece that could be linked to other pieces to create a unified picture, but that, more often than not, stands alone.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

They shared their findings in their 2019 book, In Search of Deeper Learning. So, for example, understanding the role of the human heart in the body is not just about being able to label where the human heart is on a diagram or being able to spit out a definition. And too often we don’t see that in classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2019

Stormzy performs at Glastonbury 2019 in Somerset, U.K. Related: Students analyze rap lyrics with code in digital humanities class. We’re not saying that the history of Western music needs to be thrown out. Photo by David Jensen/PA Wire via ZUMA Press. Instead, it was decided and delivered with them. I do not want to beef Mozart.

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