Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By reframing prehistoric creativity as an inter-generational endeavor, this study reveals that children were not just observers but active participants in shaping their cultural landscapes. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Social distancing has quickly become the thing to do and will soon be the cultural norm. Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. The COVID-19 pandemic has jolted the world in ways that many of us have never seen or could have predicted. The world has moved from business as usual to business as unusual.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This diffuse and varied culture inhabited a vast area from Yunnan, China, to Sumatra, Indonesia, from about 40,000 to 2,000 years ago. Sadly, these examples of a once widespread but still poorly known culture had been ploughed back into the earth. Between 1990 and 2020 for example, one province in Sumatra lost 4.63

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in March 2020… Personal and Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences That Impact a Lifetime , Tom Murray [education]. Culturize , Jimmy Casas [education]. Books I read in January 2020. Books I read in February 2020. Smart Baseball , Keith Law [baseball]. Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Establishing a strong culture of coaching, however, requires structures to be in place in a school or district such as designated time for coaching, and ongoing professional development for coaches and administrators. The post Cultivating a Culture of Coaching to Support Powerful Use of Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

In the past year, a culture war has taken over education. As the latest Ipsos polling suggests , unlike Republican culture war legislators, most parents feel that schools do a “good job” keeping them informed about the curriculum; less than a quarter say that they have too little say about it. percent to 16.1 And the number is rising.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Such tasks likely involved collaboration and the transmission of knowledge within the group, suggesting that these skills were culturally shared over generations. This discovery supports growing evidence that Neanderthals possessed the cognitive abilities and social structures necessary for cultural innovation. Leierer, L.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Europe's First Mega-Settlements: A Case Study To address this, the researchers turned to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a prehistoric society flourishing between 5050 and 2950 BCE in what is now Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. PDF available Introduces a process-oriented approach to interpreting material culture. McGuire, R.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. 2020 ) and Douka et al. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture. But do they? 4b) Core. (5,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to 2020 data, at least 65 percent of low-income students at these colleges completed their degrees within six years. Jimenez Delgado, an undocumented student who was born in Mexico but grew up in the Los Angeles area, said that “coming to college, I felt like it was going to be a lot of culture clashing — and it wasn’t.”

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

On December 30, 2020, nine Tumandok leaders were killed and 17 more arrested on the grounds of ties to a rebel group. One of the places he visited was the province of Iloilo, where the Jalaur River megadam project is in the process of being built.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 23, 2025

The ROAD database, developed by the Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH) project, contains data from over 2,400 prehistoric sites across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Kandel from the University of Tübingen and Dr. Shumon T. Hussain from the University of Cologne, drew on a vast database of archaeological findings.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 2, 2025

Source: Ross and Wolf [link] pic.twitter.com/VzoygGSHCl — John OBrien (@jlpobrien) December 23, 2020 That being said, one dramatic shift is immediately obvious: the decline of the UK. Credit : Culture Club/Getty Images). European regional GDP per capita in 1900 and 2010 (relative to the EU average).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Black students would finally be able to learn of African Americans’ historical and cultural contributions and develop an appreciation for our rich heritage and culture. The governor’s shortsighted and abrupt response adds flames to a fire that began in 2020 when states began debating how critical race theory impacts public schools.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. A recent study, The Genomic Portrait of the Picene Culture 1 , published in Genome Biology , attempts to decode their past through ancient DNA analysis. Ravasini et al. Posth, C.,

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. A lively discussion about how students from multiple geographic locations and culturally diverse areas could work together to make a difference is their respective communities. 3D Digital Storytelling, Empathy, and Voice.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The Pillars of Digital Leadership represents a framework for all educators to initiate and sustain innovative change that aligns with the core work that already serves as the foundation for every school or district learning culture. Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone. Thanks for all that you do for kids.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether through shared resources, companionship, or experimentation, the early relationships between humans and canids reveal a dynamic interplay of culture, survival, and adaptability. Journal : Arctic Anthropology , 2020. Domestication and Early Human-Canid Interaction in Arctic and Subarctic Regions Authors : Perri, A. Ersmark, E.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

These stone grinding surfaces, found alongside rock art panels and other cultural features, are yielding the first direct evidence of plant processing in this landscape. Anthropologist Lisbeth Loutderback extracting plant residues from a metate at an archaeological site on public land in southcentral Oregon. link] Henry, A. 1 Wilks, S.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

This model suggests that the interplay between migrating early farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherers—characterized by competition, cooperation, and cultural exchange—was instrumental in the spread of agricultural practices.​ Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mallick, S., ​ Rivollat, M., Schiffels, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. Weve built systems that treat relationships as invisible, as if theyre nice to have rather than essential. The consequences of this omission are now becoming painfully evident.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

By 2020-21 it was less than 24 percent, according to the U.S. Its been long enough now that its just kind of become accepted, become part of the culture, and weve learned to deal with it, he said. competitiveness, went the thinking. Between 2000 and 2005, the share of U.S. Department of Education.) Minnesota legislators took notice.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The Gaddies.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Since introducing the role, the district has seen increased attendance at school board meetings, contributing to a more welcoming and inclusive culture.

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Digital Promise

JULY 6, 2020

The paradigm shift from racist to culturally affirming systems requires that you center the perspectives of leaders and teachers of color and support their efforts to achieve bold outcomes for Black and Brown students. To be a co-conspirator, you must continually be brave, not safe. Amplify their stories. Yes, you may receive less.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Fewer than one in 10 college graduates obtained humanities degrees in 2020, down 25 percent since 2012.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text. G., & Marrero-Guillamón, I. Josephson, J. Kelly & K.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

He has authored 50 scholarly publications including five books—the latest on the role of religion in IR, Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats and World Politics (2020) and another on the African American liberation struggle of the 1960’s-70’s, The Revolution Will not be Theorized (2019).

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

link] Offers a comparative analysis of wealth disparities across continents and cultures in the prehistoric and early historic periods. Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622. Ortman, S. Cambridge University Press.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

December invites us to step back to reflect on the events, learnings, and open questions of 2020. We’ve been intentional about taking time as an organization this year to recognize how white supremacy cultural norms show up in our practices. A sense of urgency, a dimension of white supremacy culture, is pervasive in education.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Zaretta Hammond notes in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , “The brain seeks to minimize social threat and maximize opportunities to connect with others in community.” In the 2019-20 school year, CARES Act funds were used to support professional learning last spring in the amount of $19.02

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

The Cultural Shift: How China Embraced the Domestic Cat The arrival of Felis catus was not merely a biological event; it marked a cultural shift in how Chinese society interacted with felines. The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world." Nature Ecology & Evolution , 1(0139). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139 Haruda, A.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Digital Promise is excited to announce 14 new districts will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2019-2020 school year. Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! The League is a powerful network of forward-thinking school district leaders. Chesapeake Public Schools.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

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