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JANUARY 7, 2025

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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MARCH 30, 2023

won Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year award, he had no plans to leave the profession he was so passionate about. Kentucky’s “teacher of the year” in 2022, said he felt forced to leave behind his high school teaching career after facing intense discrimination and threats for being gay. Subscribe today! When Willie Carver Jr.

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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

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

These were once living people, with families and histories. The authors argue for several key reforms: Transparency in Collection Histories : Museums and universities should fully document and disclose the origins of their skeletal collections. Additional Related Research: Blakey, M. Annual Review of Anthropology, 51 , 125-142.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And he records the conversations.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. What the Bones Reveal Beyond the tools, the cave's faunal remains tell a story of survival and adaptation.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. The food she prepares carries the essence of her familys history and her fathers ingenuity, encapsulated in every unmeasured pinch of spice. Her care isnt about perfectly replicating tradition.

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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

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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ASHP CML

AUGUST 23, 2024

In July, thirty secondary school teachers joined ASHP for an NEH-funded summer institute focused on topics in LGBTQ+ history and culture, discussion of pedagogy, and an introduction to historical documents and materials for classroom use. to gather at the Graduate Center and to visit New York City archives and cultural sites.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

The archaeological discovery of Preclassic clay figurines atop the San Isidro pyramid in El Salvador raises profound questions about the social and ritualistic lives of Mesoamerican cultures. “This discovery contradicts the prevailing notion about El Salvador’s cultural backwardness or isolation in ancient times.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. References Keating, E. New York: Penguin Random House.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Evolutionary, cultural, and social processes that seem unimaginable if we try to apply them to sapiens populations, as we understand them through cultural anthropology, history, and archaeology. The latest discovery of Thorin’s remains, which I began to unveil in The Naked Neanderthal , poses countless questions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year So many times we hear that teachers are superheroes, and I really want to disagree with that, because I'm not a superhero. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig. I'm a human being.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

For some subjects, like history, teachers say it’s hard to find comprehensive curricula that not only includes histories of marginalized communities but also includes a state’s local communities. Does it potentially cause more harm than good?

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

His life and work were dedicated to studying migration processes and their influence on the construction of cultural identity in Rio Grande do Sul. 2 since 2022. His pioneering work and unique contributions not only expanded knowledge of immigration history but also inspired generations of researchers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

Such interest also distracted from the breakthrough’s Nobel-worthy value: answering scientific questions about species’ history and evolution. JURASSIC PRESSURES The influence of pop culture on aDNA fluoresced with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park in 1990. They found none. Once more, aDNA made headlines.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s the argument of Kieran Egan, a Canadian philosopher and longtime professor at Simon Fraser University who passed away in 2022. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Roughly 1 in 4 students in the 2022-23 school year remained chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 10 percent of the school year. Still, the problem appears to have passed its peak ; almost every state saw absenteeism improve at least slightly from 2021-22 to 2022-23. where data is available. You get farther behind.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” Finland is now one of the leaders in using digital devices at school, ranking sixth overall in the 2022 PISA study. teacher and parent living in Finland, I understand the concern.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

São Tomé’s role in this devastating and transformational history is largely unknown—some people have never heard of the tiny nation. Our team aims to illuminate the island’s central and brutal place in world history. Reconstructing their experiences and Praia Melão’s place in history will take more research.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. 2024 A Global History of Ancient Games Board games have been part of human culture for millennia. The Fifty-Eight holes board from Çapmalı W. Crist et al.,

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking. That is not easily replaced.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They were exchanging stickers of sought-after players as they prepared for the 2022 World Cup, which was at least two full months away at that point. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Ramsey, Jr. Who Hears Here?

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Following the inaugural Ivan Karp Worksop in Museum Anthropology in 2022 in Seattle, I had the privilege of participating in the succeeding iteration: Clay, Ceramics, Curation. With these seemingly dissimilar objects in dialogue, the conversation sounded like shared histories and collective issues among people, over time, and across space.

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