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.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In contrast, modern shrub density in some forests is now higher than it was 130,000–115,000 years ago—a period with a similar climate to today’s but without human intervention. Researchers focused on key historical periods: pre-human Australia, periods of Indigenous habitation, and the era following British colonization.

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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

MAY 7, 2025

Stone Maps of Human Movement More than 25,000 lithic artifacts have been recovered from Montlleó—flint flakes, blades, and cores, some chipped and spent, others pristine and ready for use. They were hand-selected, transported, and exchanged—signifiers of distant homelands and enduring human ties.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. for the humans.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

One of the few replicated findings in education research is that daily, individualized tutoring during the school day really helps kids catch up academically. What if you were to marry humans with technology? I thought it was worth writing about this research because it shows one approach to bringing tutoring to more students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A 2019 study of texting and providing other information to almost 800,000 low- and middle-income students who scored in the top 50 percent on the PSAT and the SAT found no change in the types of colleges that students enrolled in. Denning and his researchers reviewed all the studies on nudging to try to answer these questions.

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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

APRIL 6, 2025

As we studied the results of our educational research from 2019, a colleague turned to me with a conclusion that mirrored my own personal experience: School leaders are a mess! Instead, leaders need to prioritize what makes them great, empower others who enhance their leadership and protect their ability to be whole human beings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry — even in a federally curated collection of research that’s supposed to be of the highest quality. ” Biased research matters because current federal law encourages schools to buy products that are backed by science.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

Ive always defined myself as a human rights educator, centering that theme throughout my 23 years of teaching. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow in 2019. These activities position students as researchers, historians, and advocates. Their stories brought history to life for my students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

“The essay may actually have been particularly helpful for predicting the college success of disadvantaged students,” said Jack Buckley, a former head of research at the College Board, via email. A consistent body of research has found that high school grades are more predictive of how a student will do in college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time. Critical thinking exercises and games haven’t produced long-lasting improvements for students. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. 2019 Implications for Understanding Prehistoric Societies The active participation of children in creating cave art compels a reevaluation of social structures in Upper Paleolithic societies. .​ Credit: Prof.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Other scholars produced research showing that the kind of zero-tolerance discipline then in vogue was hurting students’ long-term academic prospects and feeding the school-to-prison pipeline. Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. Department of Health and Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

One researcher at NWEA, an organization that produces standardized tests, says he has come up with a way to detect rapid guessing and has found that it is particularly prevalent on reading tests. . Related: Researchers can predict when a student’s mind is wandering. But Wise’s research points to student motivation as the cause.

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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. On the left are the researchers’ categories of thinking scientifically. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Three research studies find that the objects detract from learning. 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. Some schools banned them from classrooms well before researchers had the proof.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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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. Elsewhere, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found Amira shows promise in boosting the vocabulary of students.

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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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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. A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. References Bastide, H. 56-67. . &

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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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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Their remains and the artifacts found with them shed light on this major turning point in human evolution.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Edgar Sanchez, an ACT researcher who conducted the analysis, said the inflation makes it hard to interpret high school grades, especially now that A grades are the norm. Source: ACT Research Report 2023 : Sanchez speculates that test optional admissions have elevated the importance of high school grades. was the maximum grade.)

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was an assistant and then associate professor at the New School for Social Research from 2000-2011. Htun received her Ph.D. in political science from Harvard and a A.B. in international relations from Stanford. Htun was named as a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNM in 2024.The

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A theme here at Proof Points is that many things that go on at schools are at odds with the conclusions of rigorous education research. Teachers ought to be learning more about what the last 50 years of rigorous, well-designed research has uncovered, confirmed or refuted when they start their profession. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Only a human tutor, sitting next to a student during homework time, would be able to figure out the proper hint that an individual student needs in a particular moment. To build the crowdsourced hint system, the researchers paid 13 teachers to write hints. “We

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