Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, nine U.S. states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Experts say it’s a course that doesn’t necessarily have to be taught by a traditional math teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It was one of her last moments with her grandfather, who died at the end of August 2020, just a week after she arrived on campus. At the beginning of August 2020, Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu in August 2020. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. In addition, colonial economics created food shortages in Banda and across West Africa.

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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. Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

The study received a lot of attention and generated controversy among statisticians , after Vox wrote about it earlier in January 2020. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

Many colleges and universities anticipate a sharp decrease in international students for fall 2020. Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley, who attended the high school where she now teaches, said that number dropped significantly for both fall 2020 and fall 2021, as students struggled not only to get online but, in some cases, watched as their relatives lost jobs or became sick or even died from the coronavirus. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? No matter what we are calling them, they may be here to stay. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Press. Colleges and universities no longer have a monopoly on credentials.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. So does the U.S. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. Graeber died suddenly in Italy in 2020 at the age of 59.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. So, what is competency-based education, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Schools get creative.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. “ Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation ” was written by Erica Blom and Tomas Monarrez at the Urban Institute and published in January 2020. This is where the Urban Institute analysis gets really interesting.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Intended to train displaced workers, non-traditional adult students, and first-time college students, these efforts seek to upskill or reskill people and help them to obtain industry-recognized credentials that align with in-demand, high-wage occupations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Interest in outdoor schools like Sol has spiked since Covid-19 hit the United States last year, according to a 2020 snapshot report from the Natural Start Alliance. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. The school also prioritizes economic equity. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. Angel Vasquez, 2020 high school graduate from Providence, Rhode Island, of his family. “I Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Taking advantage of the event’s popularity, organizers of the Bayou Classic teamed up with Louisiana-based NexusLA, an economic development organization, to host a pitch competition between teams of tech-savvy college entrepreneurs. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. The task ahead is daunting: The Department of Education only started sending batches of student records this week to colleges that will determine aid offers, and about 200 have already extended the traditional May 1st deadline for students to accept offers.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Credit : Transparency International) In 2020, Pavlo R. This may be a tradition particular to (if not necessarily limited to) the former Soviet space. 29(2), pages 343-356, April.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

In January 2020, I carried out preliminary research in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, where rampant wildfires had engulfed wide swaths of the country each year since August 2010. The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

It has a far-reaching ripple effect, with power to uplift individuals, families and entire communities; it remains the most reliably consistent path to economic and social mobility. Will it be economic interests, such as legacy, donor status and the ability of the student’s family to pay the “full freight” cost of college?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. The pandemic has driven down four-year college enrollment by 4 percent and community college enrollment by 17 percent since spring 2020. yearly median of $36,660.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report highlights the rapidly changing landscape of the workforce. Moeller, J., Brackett, M.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

To get from design to actual product involves using advanced computer software plus a waterjet, a traditional manufacturing machine. In February 2017, the Vermont Economic Development Authority approved $7.1 million in economic development financing for manufacturing , agricultural, energy and small business projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2020, policies in 27 states allowed students to earn credentials through career education coursework, such as industry certifications, according to an analysis from the Education Commission of the States. These programs still offer all the traditional classes of a typical school. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF). “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Still others are stymied by academic calendars that continue to favor the traditional 18- to 22-year-old, even though such students are no longer the norm. Nearly every state has set a goal for boosting the proportion of its population with post-secondary education; most are aiming for 55 to 65 percent by 2020 or 2025.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Black and Hispanic students and students living in poverty were most likely to have to go without substitutes, according to a 2020 study from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. They can earn a higher daily rate than traditional substitutes, or put the extra amount toward health benefits. Covid made a bad situation worse.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In Australia, some traditional owners have expressed concerns over the potential destruction of sites like Murujuga due to industrial development projects. A gas project in the area threatens the preservation of the ancient petroglyphs, raising questions about the balance between cultural conservation and economic interests.

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