Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Did this genetic divergence give modern humans a competitive advantage in terms of communication, social organization, and culture? 1414542111 Zeberg & Pääbo (2020) – "A genomic region associated with speech and language has been under recent positive selection in modern humans" ( Science Advances ). Vargas, C.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Failing grades have jumped for middle and high school students nationwide: The state of New Mexico , for example, and the city of Houston, Texas, had more than 40 percent of students fail at least one class from spring 2020 to spring 2021. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Culture is shaping it.”. Early Childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”

Education 143

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” Less discussed is the connection between water insecurity and violence against women.

Anthropology 136

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. However, this pop-culture debate over the downside of praise “rests on the assumption students are bathed in rich rates of praise during school,” Herman told me via email. “In

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). When student behaviors distract from the learning or jeopardize the safe psychological space in the classroom, it is emotionally draining for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

And yet the immigrant experience is still an unusual one in Iowa — a state that holds enormous sway over the 2020 election but looks quite unlike the rest of the U.S. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Iowa is 18 percent whiter than the country as a whole. It’s easy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report The 24-year-old now runs hurdles for the UC Davis track team while pursuing a double major in psychology and African American studies, and obstacles peppered his path off the track as well. So he enrolled in community college before starting at UC Davis in the fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Counselor burnout is real.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Bias also plays a role.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

The Barriers Military Children Face The challenges families experience in military life can be a source of psychological stress, especially for children. Children are also facing changes with new or different teaching methods, expectations in classroom and school culture, and even unfamiliar technology and online learning processes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The association reports the national average was 1:415 in the 2020-21 school year. The association reports the national average was 1:415 in the 2020-21 school year. Even so, most schools are understaffed. The American School Counselor Association, for example, recommends a counselor-to-student ratio of 1:250.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2022

Two months ago, the Surgeon General of the United States issued a dire warning about an exploding youth mental health crisis, amplified by the pandemic but well underway before 2020. According to one American Psychological Association survey , members of Gen Z are more likely to rate their mental health as fair or poor than older generations.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They include narratives such as the Earth being flat, the 2020 election being rigged or stolen, and COVID-19 vaccines being dangerous,” the News Literacy Project’s report found. While teens don’t believe every conspiracy theory they see, 81 percent who see such content online said they believe one or more.

Civics 145

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). ” Among these skills are effective communication, the cultivation of positive relationships, and the display of cultural competence. Graham, S., & Hebert, M.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

Online content moderators, reviewing harmful materials, risk psychological trauma. Students are told about the career benefits of joining the military, but not so much about the physical, psychological, and moral risks of the profession. He holds an MA from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Graduate Student (2018-2020).

Political Science 63

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. Even before the pandemic, one in five children in the U.S. May 26, 20201. Photo by Sara Hertwig.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data show a higher rate of people working in education quitting as of February this year than in the same month in 2020. Yet even with teachers, new and veteran, so rattled by pandemic teaching and concurrent culture wars, districts may not be adapting. “They don’t teach you this in college.”

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The challenge here is that the training program must adapt to the culture. I am forever indebted to her encouragement and "permission" to be a scientist, unbound by a limiting cultural restriction that albums must not be shared. Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology , 7 (1), 68-80. Cabrera, I.,

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

Pedagogy 40

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” in 2020—the most in 12 years, according to the FBI. In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

At the beginning of 2020, Brisandi Ruiz was hopeful about the year ahead. When she found a new job as an allergy technician in September 2020, it didn’t pay enough for the couple to send their son to a licensed childcare center, so a neighbor watched him at her house for a more affordable fee. Everybody is traumatized.”.

Psychology 142

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But in April 2020, during her freshman year, Meryl died by suicide after facing years of harassment over her identity. Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. In the spring of 2020, she started doit4Meryl. “I Some families have sued.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. This is fundamental to the aims of PSHE.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

almost 15 million kids — were considered obese as of the 2020 school year, a number that has likely increased since the pandemic (new data is expected next year). She plans to study psychology. “I She burned with embarrassment when her classmates laughed. Nearly 20 percent of children in the U.S. I just want to help people.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Giving students the opportunity to practice this important American cultural norm gives our students the edge in college and in life.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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