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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

By directly comparing the stone tools (lithics) of these two cultures for the first time, researchers have found no meaningful technological connection between them. Until now, the Châtelperronian and Uluzzian industries had always been studied separately, often by researchers using different terminology and methodologies.

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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 Human Evolution, 137 , 102671. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar?

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

The Puzzle of the Missing Fires In the bleak cold of the Last Glacial Maximum, it seems obvious that fire would have been essential for human survival. 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. Brooks, A. Basic Books.

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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. References Keating, E.

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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.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The Mystery of the First Dogs Dogs, our oldest animal companions, have walked beside humans for tens of thousands of years. If correct, this finding challenges the long-held assumption that deliberate human intervention was necessary for the emergence of early dogs. ." —Elzinga et al., The Role of Human Food: Was There Enough?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2025

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms.

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JULY 8, 2024

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. This was purely a research exercise and these essays and machine scores weren’t used in any of ETS’s assessments.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. Thus, small children were considered particularly suited to bridging the gap between the worlds and delivering messages to non-human entities."​ Further Reading For those interested in exploring related research: de Beaune, S.

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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. If you or your coaching team are interested in joining cohort 2, which will run from beginning of March to early May 2022, you can explore the course content here. I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

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MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. A’s on the rise Percentage of ACT test takers with a grade point average of A, B, or C from 2010 to 2022 by subject.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. What research has to say about reading instruction. A group annotation poster at the end of the process. 10.1598/0872071774.10. Landmark College.

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Maitri Learning

MAY 2, 2025

For decades, the United States has invested billions in reading research, yet nearly two-thirds of fourth graders still cannot read proficiently according to national assessments (National Assessment for Educational Progress [NAEP], 2022; Weasler, 2024). This research is primarily focused on outcomes assessed by quantitative studies.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Ancient Hearths of Fuente del Salín Fire has long been a cornerstone of human existence, providing warmth, protection, and a means to cook food. Additionally, the researchers found high concentrations of manganese oxides in the combustion features. However, Fuente del Salín offers a different perspective.

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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. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp. Levi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind.

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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. Human Organization. 69 (3): 252-262.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2022, the state division got creative. In 2022, New Orleans voters passed a local property tax to generate $21 million per year for child care for infants through 3-year-olds. Providers couldnt increase compensation to attract and retain qualified teachers. Classrooms were closing. The ballot initiative passed.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Though college enrollment seems to be stabilizing after the pandemic disruptions, predictions for the next 15 years are grim.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. Just last week, for instance, a bill sailed through both houses of the California state legislature that aims to make sure that courses at the state’s community colleges are taught by qualified humans, not AI bots.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Flash forward a few decades, and in 2022, I observed four teachers and 135 freshmen – all in one classroom. The number of students assigned to a team of teachers tops 20,000 kids – an estimate from ASU that doubled from fall 2022. My mom was one of two girls in Westwood’s woodworking class.) It dates back to the 1960s.

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MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S. According to the U.S.

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JULY 8, 2024

Digital educators, alert and available at all times, will soon replace their human counterparts and feed students with concentrated personalized content. Human educators — the teachers and the school counselors with whom students build emotional bonds and relationships of trust — are like the cloth mom. screamed breathless headlines.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. Recently, I was humbled and honored to be named the 2022-23 Teacher of the Year in my county as well as one of seven finalists for the state of Maryland.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless. What the pandemic has shown us is that we also need a new modern redesign in education, one that refocuses on the essence of our social brains and our resilience: human connections.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Roughly 3,000 teachers and 130,000 students were using it during the 2022-23 school year, according to the husband and wife team of Neil and Cristina Heffernan who run ASSISTments, a nonprofit based at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where Neil is a computer science professor.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “So In 2022, only about 270,000 families (about 1.6 Historically, they’d received state and local funds, as well as money from private foundations, says Sarah Crowne, senior research scientist at Child Trends, a nonprofit research center focused on children and families.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

Further research demonstrated site leaders of color tend to serve the most vulnerable communities. We are synthesizing our learnings, which will inform programming for our next cohort of site leaders of color in spring 2022. In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship. I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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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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APRIL 7, 2024

The evolution of dogs from their wild ancestors, the grey wolves, stands as one of the enduring mysteries of human prehistory. This groundbreaking research shed new light on the intricate journey of our canine companions, revealing unexpected insights into their ancestry. 1 Bergström, A., Stanton, D. 1 Bergström, A.,

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