Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. FROM IRAQ TO EMORY For two months out of every year, I live in Iraq and lead an international team of researchers on an archaeology project. militarys invasion of Iraq?

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles. Recent research by Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) shows that this drive for meaning has profound effects on brain development. Here's a summary of some of those key points.

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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. This discovery reveals a new dimension of Neanderthal life, challenging outdated stereotypes of them as rudimentary and unsophisticated.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture. But do they? 1) Core exploited by orthogonal planes. (2,

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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. In some cases, state law mandated that teacher layoffs had to be done by seniority.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

A recent study from a team of researchers working at Korman’ 9, a Paleolithic site in Ukraine’s middle Dniester valley, begins to offer some clarity. Fire as Cultural Technology Fire is not merely a survival tool. Related Research Here are some other studies that complement and contextualize these new findings: Henry, A.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2022

This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes how to say “yes” to a sustainable workload, best practices for family engagement, and creating a positive school culture. 2022 reads you shouldn’t miss. Positive school culture might mean flipping the script. What does the research recommend?

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

“Melka Wakena’s unique high-altitude setting offers valuable insights into how early humans adapted to challenging environments,” the researchers wrote. The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 Related Research **Lemorini, C., & Plummer, T. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2022

Missed the top resources for teachers and coaches from July 2022? Here are our top picks for the July 2022 reads to catch up on. ” Here are four ways to help student voices lead and shape the classroom culture. Catch up on our June 2022 top resources for teachers and coaches ! . We’ve got you covered!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

As I met with global educators and researchers over the course of several days, a few key themes emerged as ones to keep an eye on in the early childhood space this year: 1. These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Further Reading For those interested in exploring related research: de Beaune, S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2022, only 22 percent of eighth graders tested proficient or above in understanding how this countrys constitutional democracy is supposed to work and how to apply that knowledge. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter to receive our comprehensive reporting directly in your inbox. Naturally, spending class time on civics helps.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. That number dropped to 10 states in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test done every two years, Minnesota fell from second place among the 50 states in 2009 on eighth grade math scores to eighth place in 2022 , the latest year of available data. Related: Widen your perspective. To do that, we needed to have them take Algebra I in eighth grade.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. I am very proud of that fact.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2025

art and art history education is in crisis : While 5,300 art history degrees were awarded in 2012, the number fell to just 3,500 in 2022 a 34 percent decline, The Nation reported. Graduates should be equipped to advocate for ethical business practices and cultural preservation. In the U.S.,

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. Credit: Ben Marwick At Longtan, researchers uncovered 53 Quina scrapers and 14 cores—blocks of stone from which scrapers were struck.

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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. which are becoming increasingly user-friendly and flexible (Apostolidou, 2023).

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

grounded in learning sciences research. Her description of students who are learning English as “linguistically gifted” opens the doors for students and their families to celebrate their language and their culture. Fortunately for us, the research agrees, and she moves the research from the journal article to school and society.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. Students reported less enjoyment, less interest and more anxiety around the topic, said Doris Lewalter, an educational researcher at the Technical University of Munich.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

The number of college-educated women in the workforce has now overtaken the number of college-educated men, according to the Pew Research Center. Women who go to college are also 7 percentage points more likely than men to graduate , the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports. It had such a weed-out culture.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

Readers reacted, particularly teachers who were angry about how researchers characterized them as going “rogue” for pulling together their own resources. The researchers and curriculum experts I spoke with said that for the most part, teachers should use a high-quality curriculum that is grade-appropriate and aligned to a state’s standards.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A large body of research shows that Black students are likely to learn more when they are taught by a Black teacher. Quantitative researchers have found better results for Black students taught by Black teachers in Texas , Florida , Missouri , Tennessee and North Carolina. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. In a 2022 global survey , 60 percent of higher education institutions said that climate-related content is found in fewer than 10 percent of their courses. They are also thinking about research about how you conjugate verbs. Environment and Sustainability in Enlightenment France.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Researchers at the OECD compared these survey responses with test scores and noticed intriguing relationships between books in the home, a preference for reading on paper and reading achievement. was published on July 12, 2022. OECD researchers wonder if the presence of physical books at home still matters in the digital age.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Our cries for content-rich curriculum firmly seated in how the brain learns to read and write, as evidenced by decades of scientific research, fell on deaf ears. Our cries for content-rich curriculum firmly seated in how the brain learns to read and write, as evidenced by decades of scientific research, fell on deaf ears.

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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. This stands in contrast to interviews that take place in isolated settings in which the interviewee knows the interviewer only as a researcher, and not as neighbour, friend, co-er, or perhaps, (fictive) kin.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This series further builds upon the APSA-Pi Sigma African American Alpha Oral History Project (1988-1994) and is motivated by the McClain Task Force on Systemic Inequality in the Discipline (2022). Her research interests included the areas of health policy issues, program performance evaluation, Black women, and related political issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Related: PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach Decades of research show that participating in music and arts education during and after school benefits young people. Nearly 4 million U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

There were 46 school shootings in 2022. There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. Previous SEL research combined these constructs into a general category of social outcomes.

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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. Depression and anxiety have spiked , too.)

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