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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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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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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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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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

For most of history, humans knew and named no more than four taste qualities: sweet, bitter, salty, and sour. But the human tongue distinguishes a fifth one, which remained unknown and unnamed until Kikunae Ikeda, a chemistry professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo, identified it in 1908. See the graph.)

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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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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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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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Living Geography

JULY 1, 2024

Mapping practices are indebted to the discipline of cartography but move progressively away from its traditional core interests, described by Matthew Edney (2019) as the idealisation of the process of mapping.

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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

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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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Their findings showed no evidence of a significant population decline before European arrival, instead suggesting that the islanders maintained their traditions and population levels until contact. This case study provides valuable lessons on sustainable living and the resilience of human communities. 1 Davis, D. DiNapoli, R.

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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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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

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

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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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Ruskin at Walkley is still one of my favourite websites. Vintage Books. Duke University Press.

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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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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

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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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 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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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

APRIL 15, 2022

The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Three-year degrees can appeal to another important market for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

They amble down to a basement classroom that mimics a traditional school or center-based program, with multiple teachers for the dozen children, a structured routine and thoughtfully designed activity centers, each of which includes a poster for caregivers with instructions and tips to encourage exploration and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

In Carlsbad, voters approved $80 million for new schools in 2019 and school officials may return to the ballot box next year for additional funds as southeast New Mexico’s booming economy continues to draw new people. It’s hard to think,” said James, a sixth grader, of the district’s traditional middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. Leave this field empty if you're human: Most of students in the class were ninth and 10th graders. But although these programs have increased in popularity and spent an estimated $1.6 Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020. Nor should they: “A lot of what people are calling ‘mental health struggles’ are actually figuring out this human experience and figuring out how to be an adult,” she said. That is changing. I wanted to focus on prevention.”

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class. After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. Anthropologists like to begin with a story, and here is mine.

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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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