Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account. Their findings upend traditional assumptions. Temporal and geographical distribution of skin pigmentation estimates in Eurasia from Paleolithic to Iron Age. Credit: bioRxiv (2025).

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. Her career spans more than 25 years in education policy and research in the public and nonprofit sectors.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. The post Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. million students across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

The trend crosses traditional political divides. Those brains grow through a process scientists have coined serve and return , when a caregiver and a child engage in back-and-forth exchanges like a lively game of tennis, according to researchers at Harvard University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. My takeaway message is that it could be better,” said researcher David C.D.

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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. percent of the students at traditional discipline schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. In New Hampshire, play-based learning has been mandated in early grades on the basis of strong research on the effectiveness of guided play. for adults and children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. One report documented that U.S. One is phonics.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best. Next steps.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. million more students were taking at least one course online — even as the total number of college students fell by more than a million between 2019 and 2022. percent versus 1.1

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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.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. How Social Studies and Science Strengthen Literacy Research confirms that social studies and science play a crucial role in strengthening literacy skills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Journalist Natalie Wexler, author of the 2019 book The Knowledge Gap, said the study ought to spark a re-evaluation of the usual approach to reading comprehension in schools, which frequently focuses on skills, such as asking students to find the main idea and make inferences. In other words, researchers lost half of their study subjects.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates. A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Community colleges tend to serve lower-income students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. Herein lies the dilemma.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. Credit: Erella Hovers To determine whether these incisions were intentional engravings or merely the result of tool use, researchers applied advanced 3D surface analysis.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

researchers collected all the studies they could find on peer interaction, in which children are either discussing or collaborating on an assignment together in small groups of two, three or four students. A meta-analysis ,” was published online December 2019 in the Journal of Educational Psychology. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2019

With the lists of the men’s and women’s teams invited to the 2019 NCAA tournament in hand, we developed our formula and set out to see how the competition would fare if we selected teams based on their track records of closing equity gaps and ensuring student success. That’s why we gave the classic bracket a twist.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers in a broad range of fields working with a variety of age groups have recommended Nearpod for generating active and engaging learning experiences, motivating students, and facilitating timely assessment (e.g. Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Website: [link] Burton, R.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. The publisher has been middle of the pack in recent years, with stronger performance than McGraw Hill but not as good as companies like Pearson, says James Wiley, principal analyst at the research and advisory firm Eduventures.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Rural schools accounted for 70 percent of the 1,600 schools that had adopted a four-day schedule by the spring of 2019. The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to one estimate.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. percent from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school year. school system. school system. Wednesday, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

The research evidence is clear. Half the students in introductory physics classes were randomly assigned to learn the concept of static equilibrium the traditional way through lectures. Learning by trying something yourself is superior to passively listening to lectures, especially in science.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2019, a grassroots campaign led by parents succeeded in passing a wave of dyslexia legislation. No well-designed research study has compared a dyslexia-specific remedy, such as Orton-Gillingham, head-to-head with more general interventions for children who struggle in reading. The research is there,” she said.

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