Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. Josephson, J.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For centuries, these cloth objects have protected the region’s human and spirit-like beings against illness, death, birth, and seasonal change. The matter became international news in 2020 when a group of scientists reported several red and blue polyester strings more than five miles above sea level near Mount Everest’s peak.

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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. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges.

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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. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. The Gaddies. You’re stronger minded.

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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. Crellin, R. Change and archaeology. 1 Arponen, V.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That was the approach that Claire Bowen and her team took when organized a week-long series of data science programming back in 2020, when the pandemic first forced students and teachers to hunker down into remote learning. It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

Quarterback Drew Brees, of the New Orleans Saints, walks off the field at halftime during the NFL Pro Bowl football game in January, 2020. Demonstrators protest Thursday, June 4, 2020 near the White House in Washington over the death of George Floyed, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. All the time.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. Ironically, though, it was the lack of human interaction that became the central issue.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. Since 2020, Native student enrollment in computer science courses has declined at most two-year and four-year institutions, she said, even as more students overall have received degrees in the subject.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

Subsequent research and statements from math experts questioned the relevance and efficacy of traditional pathways to calculus for all students. More recently, in 2020, the University of Texas at Austin’s Charles A. Dana Center reported that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Iowa’s chief human resource officer, Cheryl Reardon, explained, “That’s just who we are as an institution.” We have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition. But we have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Addressing the digital divide requires a human-centered approach In the early days of the pandemic, schools raced to provide devices and hotspots to students, responding to concerns over a widening digital divide. We must not let the flood of tech tools overshadow the necessary human element of education. Adam Phyall 6.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. AIR publicized it February 2020 as a policy brief. For students, that’s a degree with zero tuition. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Role of Fear in Shaping Population Patterns Since the end of the Ice Age, human populations have experienced cycles of growth and decline, with the underlying causes remaining only partially understood. Credit: Magistrat der Stadt Hofheim; LEIZA-Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Architectura Virtualis 2020 www.leiza.de

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But would it be wiser for the night owl to wake up early to be taught by a human? Researchers found that online courses helped students finish their bachelor’s degrees faster, but students tended to get lower grades in their online classes — a sign that they’re learning less than they would have in a traditional class.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dintersmith supported a statewide education summit hosted by Governor Doug Burgum, a former software executive who is no stranger to the innovation economy. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. In Alabama, nearly 2,000 of the state’s 47,500 teachers — 4 percent — didn’t hold a full certificate in 2020-21, the most recent year for which data is available.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) In January, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia examined a subset of middle-skill jobs and found that the proportion of job listings asking for a college degree dropped 4 percent between the first quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2021.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district. Diagnosing dyslexia early, for instance.

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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). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. I graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Researchers then compared what happened to these stats students with a similar group of almost 300 students who were sent to remedial algebra, the traditional first step for students who fail the algebra subtest. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

As a student at Dartmouth in 2020, Sanat Mohapatra launched a mental health peer support app called Unmasked, which kept students connected when the pandemic sent them home. And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020. That is changing. It now has 12,000 users at 46 schools. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Once a mostly rural county known as a sleepy outdoor paradise, Gallatin saw the number of residents rise by nearly a third in a decade, to almost 120,000 in 2020, as people relocated for new construction and tech jobs and a seemingly better quality of life. You want to feel what it’s like to be the best,” wrote Francisco.

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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. Chad Golden, executive director of human resources, also added a position in his office dedicated to recruiting substitutes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you want to understand how online degrees are shaking up traditional colleges and universities, look at Pennsylvania. Leave this field empty if you're human: Moody’s Investors Service rates the bonds of many universities around the country and it issued a report on Jan. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. For English, only half of the online students passed the course and made up the credit compared with two-thirds of the students in the traditional teacher-taught class.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open. Create More! Consume Less?

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