Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesias Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the regions history. Between 1990 and 2020 for example, one province in Sumatra lost 4.63 million hectares in 2020. Meanwhile, palm oil fields grew sixfold, reaching 3.52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. This first report, covering the summer of 2020, is the first time the organization has analyzed summer enrollment. Will history repeat? Now the proof is starting to come in.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, provide that grounding. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for. Make a donation today.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

For instance, genetic studies have shown that early farming populations from the Eastern Mediterranean colonized islands like Sicily and Sardinia before 2500 BC, suggesting a history of maritime interaction in the region. Maritime migrations: Anthropologist sheds light on the genetic history of ancient populations in Mediterranean islands.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For my year end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most well-read Proof Points stories of 2020. 4, 2020 with a follow-up story to the first one on this list. Will history repeat? The post PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020 appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By revealing how ancient Mesopotamians tied feelings to specific organs, it contributes to the broader conversation about the universality and variability of emotional experiences in human history. Journal : Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , 2020.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2020… You Gotta Have Wa , Robert Whiting [baseball]. Phantom Warrior , Forrest Bryant Johnson [history]. The Apocalypse Troll , David Weber [sci fi]. Lucifer’s Hammer , Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [sci fi]. Building School 2.0: Into the Looking Glass , John Ringo [sci fi].

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2020, Arizona’s Certificate of Ascertainment included information about court cases over the 2020 election that were decided or still pending. The post How the Electoral College Works—And Why It Exists appeared first on Teaching American History. In 2000, the dispute over the election reached the Supreme Court.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, provide that grounding. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for. Make a donation today.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

Rather than a single lineage evolving smoothly over time, the evidence suggests a history of separation and recombination," says Cousins. This approach circumvents the need for physical fossils, offering a way to reconstruct population history even when no bones or artifacts remain. Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. Students who were in eighth grade in early 2024, when this exam was administered, were in fourth grade when the pandemic first shuttered schools in March 2020.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

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. The ability to preserve history is a form of power, and that power is rarely in the hands of the public. But migration is never neutral.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

There are no provisions in the 2020 relief package to increase grants or loans for future students. Will history repeat? Some benefited but too many Americans ended up saddled in debt without degrees. But if the recession lasts longer, public policy isn’t yet creating new incentives for people to return to college.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Journal : Arctic Anthropology , 2020. R., & Smith, B. DOI : 10.3368/aa.57.1.45

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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Active History Teacher

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As a secondary US History teacher, I teach students both live and remote at the same time. I’ve learned so much from Julia from History from the Middle. Let 2020 be 2020. Join The Active History Teacher Community! The post What I Have Learned About Remote Learning appeared first on Active History Teacher.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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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. European regional GDP per capita in 1900 and 2010 (relative to the EU average). Strange Maps #1265 Got a strange map?

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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. Darielly Suriel, a senior majoring in history, was representing the Dominican Student Organization (“Dominican centered, not Dominican exclusive”), which she and other students founded last year. “I

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

However, this new genomic study, led by Francesco Ravasini and colleagues, reconstructs the biological history of the Picenes using DNA extracted from 102 ancient individuals spanning over 1,000 years of history. While the Picenes eventually faded from history, absorbed into the expanding Roman state, their genetic legacy persisted.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 At the same time, Homo erectus experienced a significant reduction in the size of their chewing teeth, another evolutionary marker indicating a dietary shift towards softer, cooked foods. Homo erectus : The First Cook? Sanchis-Gimeno, J.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

After that, the rest is history. Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone. For me, the push I needed came from Ken Royal, who, after hearing what we were doing at New Milford High School and then visiting, stated unequivocally that I had to share our story. Blogging has certainly changed over the past ten years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

link] This study provides a powerful reminder that even the smallest traces—microscopic starch granules—can reshape our understanding of human history. American Antiquity, 81 (4), 664–681. link] Henry, A. Starch Granules as Markers of Diet and Behavior." 1 Wilks, S. Louderback, L.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. Understanding these dynamics not only enriches our comprehension of human history but also highlights the intricate web of relationships that have shaped our collective past. Mallick, 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. For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. for adults and children.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. It’s completely absurd.”. teaching work force.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It This serves as a stark reminder of how fragile our connection to deep history is. But what if that story is incomplete?

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

In the long arc of human history, what makes a settlement persist? Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , the study draws on data from over 47,000 houses spanning nearly 3,000 archaeological sites and 10,000 years of human history. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622. Ortman, S. Cambridge University Press.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2016

Board of Education, the landmark case that put in motion the Civil Rights Movement and remains a poignant moment in American history. If, by 2020, students of color were grading high school and college at the same rates as white students, the U.S. May 17 th marked the 62nd anniversary of Brown v. The post From Brown v.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. The research for this project earned the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award and the 2021 Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. She had enough to manage with her evening bartending job, so she was seeking a simpler option.

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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. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. The Gaddies. I felt like I would be able to give more of the world to my kids.” Fatima Siddiqui, homeschooler.

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