Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I (Mariam) grew up in a Pakistani diaspora family, where I observed roti-making as an organizing tradition of my home culture, but one that remained a gender-exclusive space for girls, mothers, and aunties. To better understand roti through both the personal and the political, I created the Roti Collective in 2021. where I teach.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

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. Mapuche shamans, or machis , play the traditional kultrun drum in 1900. And they were boats that came from Europe, Fernndez claimed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For my year-end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most important Proof Points stories of 2021. This story about the top education research stories of 2021 was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

These instruments, linked to the Umm an-Nar culture, provide compelling evidence of a shared musical tradition between the ancient civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula and the Indus Valley.​ The discovery of these well-preserved cymbals offers a rare glimpse into the auditory traditions of Bronze Age communities.​

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

The 2021 Eyvanekey field project sought to change that. Yet the lithic traditions here were not carbon copies of what was happening in the Levant or the Caucasus. A New Chapter in an Ancient Corridor Previous studies had focused largely on the western and eastern edges of the Northern Iranian Central Desert. link] Shoaee, M.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St. Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

One study quoted in a White House report found that the number of chronically absent public school students nearly doubled , from around 15 percent in the 2018-19 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-22. And teachers want more support, too. A recent survey of U.S.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

Spatial distribution of archaeological sites included in the Bayesian chronological modelling according to geographic province, lithic technology (tradition or category), altitude and evidence for megafauna (MF) killing/scavenging by humans. Although a single lithic tradition/category is assigned to each site, some contain more than one (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 That’s up from 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

In addition to such traditional activities as sports, canoeing and arts and crafts, many included hands-on projects that improve kids understanding of science, math and language. The post Summer camp 2021: More anxiety, more learning, more hugs — same fun appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edthena

AUGUST 25, 2021

Here’s what you need to know about how to support educators’ learning: What’s happened is adult learning is rapidly transitioning to a more online, digital model—and it is increasingly taking place through new platforms and providers, and in non-institutional or non-traditional contexts.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

“These features, whatever their age, demonstrate traditional ancient Indigenous practices, driven by the universal human need to transport possessions and resources.” The researchers propose that these markings, found in association with human footprints, may represent the earliest known use of a human-drawn transport system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. In 2021, 23 states were spending less on pre-ETS than the 15 percent required by law. They know what their strengths are.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

Strategic Planning for Equity-Driven Edtech Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation A recent report from LearnPlatform showed that during the 2021-2022 school year, school districts accessed an average of 1,417 edtech tools each month. Technology in schools can be a critical tool in advancing equity.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

21 , and photos taken of the remaining artefact collection at the Institut des Sciences Anthropologiques de Développement (ISAD) in 2021. Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It Their conclusion?

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

This individualized approach has the potential to inform the traditional classroom setting and improve learning for all students. How is your school or district planning to prioritize digital equity for the 2021-2022 school year? Click here to download the League’s Digital Equity Checklist.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. 2021) takes on science denial more broadly. He was asking anthropologists to stop pretending that science speaks for itself.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2021

As a result, Verizon Innovative Learning recently received the 2021 Halo Award for Best COVID-19 Initiative from Engage for Good. In March, Fast Company ranked Verizon sixth on its list of most innovative corporate social responsibility companies of 2021 for “bridging the ‘homework gap,’ allowing low-income children to be connected at home.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By the 2021-22 school year, districts and charter networks across the country were facing what many dubbed a crisis of absenteeism. Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. So why would I go?”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

These European burials included individuals with "eastern-type" traits—characteristics often associated with nomadic steppe traditions. Instead, the majority of individuals were of predominantly European origin, maintaining local genetic and cultural traditions. Science Advances, 7 (32), eabd9223.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Having women in positions of power — including Chrystia Freeland, the nation’s first female minister of finance — was crucial to ushering the proposed program through Parliament in 2021, experts say, despite continued opposition from some conservative lawmakers.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. Public education is seeing an unprecedented investment from the CARES Act and CRRSA to support equitable instruction and learning acceleration.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Administrators are crafting plans for the 2021-22 school year to help children catch up on what they may have missed in math during the pandemic. Neumann is looking forward to working with such materials with her students when they return for the 2021-22 school year. It’s almost like Jekyll and Hyde,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

After finishing the roughly seven-month-long program and passing her certification exam in late 2021, she found that no one would hire her. 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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates. The Summer Youth Employment Program alone will employ 75,000 young people in 2021. Importantly, proven work-based learning models already exist.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A review of 24 studies on the Orton-Gillingham method , published in the July 2021 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Exceptional Children, found no statistically significant benefit for children with dyslexia. The researchers in both the 2021 and 2022 studies all cautioned that the jury is still out on Orton-Gillingham.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies. Anthropologists understand the value and the problems inherent in the use of typology. Online Learning 22(1), 205- 222.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). One of my course aims is to introduce students to how anthropology has changed and one aspect of this is through critiquing traditional typologies. Anthropologists understand the value and the problems inherent in the use of typology. Online Learning 22(1), 205- 222.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. Our own venture capital firm, New Markets Venture Partners, rode these tailwinds ourselves, successfully selling four companies in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 at generous valuations. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8 percent since going public in October 2021 at $29/share.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

Undergraduate numbers fell by 15 percent between 2010 and 2021 , according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while graduate enrollment grew by 9 percent. It reached its highest level ever in 2021, as workers who had been laid off or furloughed opted to get graduate degrees. It seemed a good bet.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions. Today, in the nontraditional sector, organizations and services have abandoned key elements of traditional higher education practice. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. Despite the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

It’s been nearly two decades since the Yale study was published, and the discipline problem persists — data from 2021 shows that half of the 17,000 preschoolers who were expelled that year were Black boys.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Students seeking a traditional four-year college experience in their home state must travel more than 225 miles to Montana State University in Billings. There’s also a big payoff: According to Montana state officials, of Montana jobs paying more than $50,000 a year created between 2011 and 2021, 63 percent went to degree holders.

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