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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. State Evaluations Reveal Gaps in Civics Education In 2021, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The less-selective schools that graduate high shares of low-income students help them succeed not only by reducing financial barriers, but also by providing an array of academic support through learning communities, peer support and undergraduate research experiences.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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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 : Human Ecology , 2021. lupus/familiaris ). Van den Broeck, M.,

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 7, 2025

Researchers extracted ancient DNA from two dire wolf fossilsa 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old inner ear boneto assemble high-quality ancient genomes (which they say will be published to the public soon). Contrary to previous assumptions based primarily on morphological similarities, dire wolves diverged approximately 5.7

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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. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Footprints That Rewrite History In the shifting gypsum sands of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a series of fossilized human footprints have surfaced, casting a striking new light on the ingenuity of Ice Age inhabitants. Some researchers have speculated that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers used watercraft. Primitive boats?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. Gaps in the Archaeological Record Despite these insights, the research also highlights major gaps in the archaeological and chronometric record.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

In this landscape stands Picuris Pueblo—a small, sovereign tribal nation whose history has long been narrated in stories passed down through generations. Published in Nature 1 on April 30, 2025, the research represents the first time a U.S. A new study, however, places them squarely in the realm of science. in April 2024.

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

From teaching Black history year-round to social and emotional wellness for teachers, we have highlights and article links for you–easy to read, even beachside. Don’t confine teaching about Black history to February. During Black History Month, resources for teaching about Black history abound.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This discovery, led by Eslem Ben Arous and a team of international researchers, forces a reconsideration of how Homo sapiens adapted to diverse ecological challenges across the continent. Researchers analyzed plant wax biomarkers, stable isotopes, phytoliths, and pollen to reconstruct the ancient climate. Their conclusion?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

Digital Promise has received a $20 million gift, the single largest unrestricted gift in the organization’s history, from MacKenzie Scott. It has developed dozens of programs that have placed the organization at the cutting edge of research, practice, and technology innovation. and around the world.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This research not only illuminates the genetic identity of the Picenes but also provides valuable insights into the broader demographic shifts that shaped Central Italy before and after the Roman conquest. A particularly striking finding comes from the Late Antiquity site of Pesaro, where researchers observed a drastic genetic shift.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Within a few decades, they built an empire that stretched from the Eurasian steppe to the heart of Central Europe, reshaping political landscapes and leaving an imprint on European history. The researchers found no widespread East Asian ancestry among the European populations of the Carpathian Basin following the Huns' arrival.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

uses Fort Knox as the focal point in his new, expansive book about the history of an area that contains part of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Exhaustively researched, the book’s boundaries to cover are set by an author who not only spent many hours researching the locations but actually visiting them. Van Stockum Jr.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Researchers at the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, are digging into whether kids are reading less — perhaps distracted by their digital devices. But when the researchers broke the data down by state, the neat correlation between reading and comprehension fell apart.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. million on TV ads in just the first quarter of 2021, up from $1.2 At Stride Inc.,

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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. He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute. Read about the funded projects.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Researchers analyzing 22 ancient feline remains from 14 sites across China have reshaped the timeline of cat domestication in the region. Leopard cats, roughly the size of modern house cats, are adaptable predators with a long history of interaction with human societies. A Tang Dynasty mural from A.D. Chinese Archaeology.) 1 Han, Y.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The failed attempt at college has left many in debt with marred credit histories and poor long-term employment prospects.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Meanwhile, politicians, pundits , and researchers argue that schools and students would be worse off without them. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. In 2021, students were still not attending school in person.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What’s more, our research revealed a clearer sense of employers’ motivations: they want better hiring results, to create new pathways for greater workforce diversity, and they’re pinched for talent. And an even larger percentage of HR professionals are exploring or considering this approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

This call pictured above was one of more than three million umpire calls analyzed by researchers in a 2021 study finding that short breaks refresh an umpire’s attention span. The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We welcome applications from scholars of all ranks (from advanced graduate students to full professors and senior researchers) and disciplines. After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog. For your application, please submit: 1. A current CV 2.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In January 2024, five researchers from Texas A&M University published their findings online in the journal Scientific Studies of Reading. Meta-analyses sweep up all the best research on a topic and use statistics to tell us where the preponderance of the evidence lies. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. While the Civil War wouldn’t end for several years, strategically, the Morrill Act positioned the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history. The interplay between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens offers a unique lens to study adaptation, survival, and the shared history of humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Housing-insecure students take fewer classes, earn fewer credits and are more likely to leave college before graduating, research shows. Plus, students with foster experience struggle to find landlords who will rent to them because they rarely have co-signers, solid credit histories or first and last month’s rent.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

We recently surveyed League superintendents to learn their hopes for education; the lessons they’re carrying with them; and their insights into practices and ideas that will continue to shape education in 2021 and beyond. What are the most pressing challenges facing school districts at this moment? – Dr. Melvin J. – Dr.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2022

That would not be unlike when employers ban the question about criminal histories on applications and discrimination against Black and Latino men increases. Related: PROOF POINTS: 2021 Year in Review. Awilda Rodriguez is a co-founder of the Equity Research Cooperative (EqRC). Everything else simply won’t measure up.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a nutshell, these programs exemplify meaningful, targeted investments in marginalized populations and represent a significant course reversal from much of United States history. In February 2021, Los Angeles approved a reform initiative known as the Black Student Achievement Plan.

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