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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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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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

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. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development. Herein lies the dilemma.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. When I arrived, the principal saw me and immediately frowned once she saw my appearance and the hijab on my head.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Tenenbaum’s advice isn’t to get rid of traditional instruction but to use peer discussions to reinforce a lecture. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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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. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

. – including hurricanes, fires, disease outbreaks and heat waves – led to 917 premature deaths, over 20,000 hospitalizations, and close to 18,000 emergency department visits, according to a September 2019 study. In 2019, the American Medical Association, the largest association of physicians and medical students in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. Chad Golden, executive director of human resources, also added a position in his office dedicated to recruiting substitutes. Jay Midwood, chief of human capital for the district, recalled his thinking at the time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after three years of learning this way, the Teach to One students in grades six through eight scored no better on New Jersey’s annual math tests than other Elizabeth students who had learned math the usual way with the whole class on the same topic at the same time. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

25796 May 2019. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. A new Boston study suggests a possible path forward: allow only charter schools that can prove they are better than traditional public schools to expand. Walters, NBER Working Paper No.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. Prior to 2019, an emergency certificate in Alabama could only be used for one year. But that’s slowly changing as the teacher pool for all content areas diminishes,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For both grades tested, in 2019 and 2022, Black, Hispanic and Native American students received the lowest scores , reflecting the high concentration of students of color in underresourced, underperforming schools. So how might we — and they — deploy these skills to address achievement gaps in the traditional subjects?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A. in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start. trillion in student loans. The American B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. When it comes to personalization, CoRise is experimenting with both human intervention and AI bots. For Garg, the Stanford student, a human helper doesn’t always seem necessary.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. The Maine study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. percent of the students at traditional discipline schools. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1 percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades. That number may be closer to 400 this year.

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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 News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Narratives of climate apocalypse and Anthropocene dystopia often evoke Christian narratives of the end-times, with environmental change as a symptom of insufficient human piety.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

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: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, more than 1,600 students who had failed freshman English or Algebra I were randomly assigned to one of two versions of summer school.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. However, if there is an issue in which schools need guidance, it’s around black hair.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: In a second analysis of 35 years of national survey data, the researchers found a strong correlation between a young woman’s beliefs about women’s roles and her future daughters’ subsequent math scores. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

The challenge with screening for dyslexia is that if you’re only dependent on a human, you’re limited in terms of the resource,” says Martyn Farrows, CEO of SoapBox Labs, a voice tech company. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. The college’s efforts were explained at length in a story published September 2019 in Politico. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

The immediate coverage of an important July 2019 study on Latino children in America emphasized how they are increasingly “segregated” from white children at school. The darker the blue, the more Latinos enrolled. Source: Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley Photo: Zaidee Stavely for The Hechinger Report. Proof Points.

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