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. Credit: Katharine Lee Figure 2: Screenshot of Slack message, from February 1, 2021 Credit: Kate Clancy Figure 3: Screenshots of posts from Kate Clancy’s Twitter asking about periods after vaccines (Fig.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. This gradual pattern of brain growth reflects the adaptive pressures faced by early humans and their relatives. Source: F1000Research.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While 25 percent of white students passed algebra in eighth grade in 2021, only 13 percent of Black students did, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate. Department of Education.

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Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

We minimized the “sage on the stage” instructional model where lecture dominates learning time, and intentionally built our traditional classes around small group learning structures.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. Featuring images of their namesake wind horses , lungta prayer flags are a significant symbol in Indigenous Bõn and Buddhist traditions. But challenges remain.

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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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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. A review of Nearpod – an interactive tool for student engagement. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. Buttrey, K.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. One report documented that U.S.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Calling itself ‘The Cosmic Micro- Odyssey ’, it was composed from 1993 to 1994 by Jan Křesadlo as his final literary project before his death and represents the newest Ancient Greek epic in the genre’s tradition. It has received minimal study (e.g. This tightens the relationship even more closely.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The national survey was conducted in 2021 by researchers at San Diego State University, including Zahner, who also directs the university’s Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, and the English Learners Success Forum, a nonprofit that seeks to improve the quality of instructional materials for English learners.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Founded in 2021, it is the latest iteration in a long line of interdisciplinary ventures into the study of the past at Minnesota including the Mellon-funded Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. It’s also known as exploration, discovery learning or simply “scientific practices.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Students on the Fort Lewis College campus in April 2021. When Cante donned her purple ribbon skirt, a traditional garment worn by some Native women, to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day in October, another student approached her. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We still need the traditional algebra-to-calculus curriculum for students who are intending a STEM major,” said Gary Martin, a professor of mathematics education at Auburn University in Alabama who led the team that conducted this survey of college professors. Majors that require calculus were excluded.

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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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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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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Their cuisine came out as the spiciest of 70 national and regional food traditions from around the world. Credit : Deb Lindsey for the Washington Post via Getty Images) That’s the topic of an article published in Nature in February 2021. Credit : L Bromham et al, Nature Human Behavior, 2021.)

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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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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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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2021, October 4). New America.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. LAUSD served almost 35,000 students across 53 of its alternative schools during the 2021-22 school year, according to state enrollment data. Is it really discipline? Is it attendance?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 That tracked with national figures, which showed that roughly 23 percent of teachers were male in the 2020 to 2021 school year. Low college enrollment rates for men have also drawn attention to men’s struggles. Thomas asks.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. She struggled in the traditional algebra class and had to withdraw, and the same happened in a statistics course. Applied algebra is her last chance.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. One 2021 study found tutoring led to strong math gains for even high school students , enabling those who started two years behind grade level to catch up. Not all tutoring has been successful. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When Make School suddenly closed in 2021, Dominican leaders were in uncharted territory, left to figure out how to help 167 students continue their education, a spokesperson said. In the spring of 2021, Make School’s finances were in disarray. No one was watching out for warning signs, financial or otherwise, of issues at Make School.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Then, over the summer of 2021, we were much too optimistic about an allegedly ‘normal’ return to school. schools, the 2021-22 school year was somehow even tougher than the previous one as we experienced extremely high levels of student refusal and absenteeism, educator stress and burnout, and so on. Schools shut down. People died.

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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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