The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . And on Aug. Indeed, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Senate investigation, over 7,000 schools or districts used GoGuardians surveillance products in 2021. Theres no independent research showing it measurably lowers student suicide rates or reduces violence. When North Carolinas Durham Public Schools piloted Gaggle in 2021, surveys showed most staff members found it helpful.

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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. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Ambio, 2022.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Journal of Research and Practice of College Teaching. Students login to see their VMs and collaborate asynchronously with their team and facilitator as they work through the clues and collaborate on the larger VM report (see Fukuzawa et al., Student evaluations of the Virtual Mystery Project have been overwhelmingly positive. Fukuzawa, S.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 Stanford University studies in 2021 and 2023 identified him as being among the top 2 percent of scientists in the world. Research by my colleague Lorraine Griffith found that struggling readers in her class made nearly two years progress in reading in just one year using these methods.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates. An eyed needle made from the bone of a red fox found at the LaPrele archaeological site in Wyoming’s Converse County.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. What research has shown is that nobody is immune to these things. But simply acknowledging bias isn’t enough to fix the problem, said Iruka, founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. This sparked my interest as it dovetailed with my ongoing research about factors that influence menstrual cycles, such as energetic stress or immune stress. 3a, from February 24, 2021, at 2:20 p.m.),

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2022

In December 2021, the U.S. But researchers who study the relationship say that the field is still in its infancy, and new methodologies and funding sources are needed to understand it and push us toward a healthier environment for kids online. Youth mental health is at a crisis point.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. Again, more research is needed to confirm this statistically.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The researchers at El Mirón extracted this ancient genetic material to uncover the presence of humans, wolves, cave lions, and even hyenas, whose very existence in Iberia at this time had previously been uncertain. Related Research Gelabert, P., “We don’t need bones,” says lead author Gelabert. Straus & R.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. One approach would be to lay off less effective teachers, regardless of seniority.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. billion in 2021. It’s been a wild ride.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

All studies included confederates; people who were part of the research team, but appeared to be regular participants. They provided either attentive or inattentive behaviors and researchers studied whether those actions spread to others in the learning environment and impacted their behaviors. Show them the studies. Forrin, N.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

By analyzing cores from Egypt's Nazlet Khater region and Dhofar, Oman, the researchers tested several hypotheses about Levallois toolmaking: Was core shape independent of size, as suggested by the principle of "autocorrelation," meaning the shape remained consistent despite reduction in size through use? J., & von Cramon-Taubadel, N.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. To better understand roti through both the personal and the political, I created the Roti Collective in 2021. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Evidence Supporting Genealogy The breakthrough in this research emerged when a particularly unique plaque in Lisbon’s Museu Geológico caught Professor Lillios’s attention. Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. zigzags, triangles), and a transitional band between these sections.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

That night in Sala Patagn stuck with me as my dissertation research took shape. This narrative of Whiteness and of Argentina as the Europe of South America persists today, as highlighted in a 2021 speech by then Argentine President Alberto Fernndez. And they were boats that came from Europe, Fernndez claimed.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

. “The structure aligns with theoretical models predicting the use of specialized heating techniques for birch tar production, a hallmark of Neanderthal ingenuity,” the researchers note. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar? Langley, A., & Needham, A.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. New York: Wiley, 2021.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

In comparison, the high school graduation rate by race and ethnicity in the United States in the 2021-22 school year was 94 percent for Asian American/Pacific Islander students, 90 percent for white students, 83 percent for Hispanic students, 81 percent for Black students and 74 percent for American Indian/Alaskan Native students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Research shows that intergenerational facilities such as Fairview Manor can lead to physical and cognitive health benefits for both children and seniors. You can have a person who might be having a bad day, says Tami Scheil, administrator of Fairview Manor, and then you see a whole cart of little children coming down the hallway.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparing the DNA of these ancient canids to that of modern dogs, wolves, and older Siberian wolf populations, the researchers uncovered genetic relationships. Alternatively, some wild canids may have been kept as pets and others hunted,” the researchers noted. Journal : Human Ecology , 2021. lupus/familiaris ).

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Bae of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and senior researcher Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on a complex evolutionary period in Asia’s late Middle and early Late Pleistocene. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Roughly 7 in 10 Americans support school cellphone bans, at least in class, according to the Pew Research Center ; another third favors a ban for the entire school day. By 2021, teens had added two hours to their daily use and the 8.5-hour Even the new U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has praised such restrictions.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Gabriel Ugueto The findings, published in Quaternary Science Advances 1 , come from a research team led by Matthew R. The researchers propose that these markings, found in association with human footprints, may represent the earliest known use of a human-drawn transport system. Related Research Bennett, M. Science.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

Researchers analyzed 254 newly sequenced genomes, uncovering evidence of extensive gene flow from West Papua into the islands of Wallacea. The region, home to immense linguistic and genetic diversity, has often puzzled researchers seeking to untangle its complex history. Related Research Lipson, M., Patterson, N., Moorjani, P.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

What started as a part-time gig for a couple of students in 2021 now keeps her busy six days a week. Early (Childhood) Investment Steven Barnett, founder and senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, says that the NAEP reading results are not what anyone wanted to see.

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