Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

Nearly two million years ago, in the high-altitude landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands, early human ancestors at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena weren’t simply grabbing the nearest stones to use as tools. Some of the bones display telltale anthropogenic marks, suggesting that early humans had a significant presence here.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. American Antiquity, 57(1), 50–56.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

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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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

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. in Nature Communications , 26 September 2019. Liberals focus more on the outer circles.

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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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. Its just what happened during the early days of the pandemic, when kids were stuck at home and beaming into school through a computer.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

The long-anticipated discharge in the early summer of 2019 was joyful, but also rushed and, as Heath recalls it, somewhat cavalier. In Illinois, the therapies are overseen by the states Department of Human Services and its Division of Early Childhood. When you make the system so difficult to navigate, families give up, Liddle said.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

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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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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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Search for Early Symbolic Expression For decades, archaeologists have debated the origins of symbolic thought in early humans. Was it an innovation exclusive to modern humans, or did our distant relatives also engage in abstract expression? Symbolic behavior in early humans is often difficult to identify with certainty.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

climate report highlighted how our dire climate crisis is “unequivocally” and “irreversibly” caused by humans. It’s long overdue that we acknowledge the harms we as humans are causing to the planet. A recent U.N. This is the crisis facing early childhood. Not investing in early childhood has consequences into the future.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said. In one study, third grade English language learners who used the program increased their vocabularies more than students who worked one-on-one with a human tutor.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible. 2024 was the year when the weather continued to break. and break records.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. Apostolidou, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. for the humans.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Please note that this article includes images of human remains. This long-lost child, represented only by a lower jaw, was referred to as Ksâr ‘Akil 4 because it was the fourth human fossil discovered at the site of Ksâr ‘Akil in Lebanon, on the Eastern Mediterranean coast. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!”

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. Learners’ engagement, active participation, and reflection are situated at the core of active learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. A 2019 draft, working paper of a study on university students in London also found that exposure to indoor air pollutants was associated with lower exam test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

What if you were to marry humans with technology? This blend of tutors and technology yielded results in ninth grade algebra equivalent to daily human tutoring alone at a much lower cost: $2,000 per student versus $3,000. Could you substitute some of the tutoring time with time on ed tech without sacrificing how much students learn?

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After the release of the latest 2018 rankings by the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA , earlier in December 2019, there was considerable hand wringing and consternation but the result wasn’t much different. Those results, released in October 2019, also found that U.S. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was the author of three books, most recently The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights around the World , co-authored with Laurel Weldon, which won the 2019 International Studies Associations Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

Due to COVID-19, all of TSEP’s in-person programs , such as its week-long middle school STEM day camp called Science In The City , its TSEP Overnight Camping Conference , and Global Hackathon with the United Nations to stop human trafficking and cybertheft, had to be converted to virtual experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. .” ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans. A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. A quarter of the scores awarded will be reviewed by human scorers.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. We’ll take a deeper dive into her research and consider the role of grit in the classroom in 2019, nearly six years after Duckworth delivered her TED Talk. An Overview of Angela Duckworth’s Research on Grit.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The group points to slumping test scores as a reason why change is needed: Eighth grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been flat for a decade, with just 34 percent of students testing proficient in 2019, as the gap between the highest and lowest performers grows. Credit: Steven Yoder.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. But it is not only humans who are harmed in these conflicts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students. Department of Education documented rising grades on high school transcripts between 2009 and 2019, while 12th grade math scores fell on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. It’s more ambiguous as to the causes of climate change, and the human role in causing climate change, than some other states,” she says. They raise cattle.

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. So what is happening here?

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