The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Irvine, teamed up to summarize the evidence from 22 studies conducted between 2010 and 2022. Their meta-analysis was published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Ordinary sentences that included numbers counted.

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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). Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While she is the first known Georgia public school teacher to be terminated under what is called the “trio of censorship” laws passed in 2022, the law is impacting classrooms around the state. Rinderle is working with her union, the Georgia Association of Educators, to fight this unjust termination.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. In places like San Diego and Santa Fe , school districts worked alongside youth programs and museums to offer experiences that felt and looked more like summer camp. In many ways it was.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group.

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K-12 Education Museum Lesson Plan 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. school system. Kindergarten enrollment remained down 5.2

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2024

Only two of sixteen 10- to 12-year-olds interviewed could explain the basic facts of climate change; one had done a fifth-grade research project and the other had visited the Climate Museum, a temporary exhibit in New York City. On top of not knowing the facts, kids this age expressed some pretty dark feelings.

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Elementary School Museum Teaching Education 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While 43 percent of Black male students dropped out between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022, President David Sanders said, 93 percent of the few dozen men in the mentoring program stuck around. At Berea, the Appalachian program has held dinners and organized road trips to baseball games and museums, with varying levels of success.

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Museum Tutoring High School Psychology 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022. Bangladesh’s existence wasn’t even acknowledged in her history classes.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Then, in February 2022, the SCCT staged a new musical, Jubilee Barndance , one of the few live productions since the beginning of Covid. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Welcome Rachel Pitkin Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 13:13 Rachel Pitkin is a first-year PhD student in History at the GC. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Then, in February 2022, the SCCT staged a new musical, Jubilee Barndance , one of the few live productions since the beginning of Covid. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

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Museum High School History Humanities 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On Black Music, Pasts and Present (2022) is his latest book. He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

History 52

History Museum American History Leadership 52

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2022, Quinteros’ district, Mason County Central School District, opened a first-of-its-kind immersive room that, with augmented and virtual reality advanced technology, allows students to deepen their learning with interactive, sensory-oriented lessons — from the World War I trenches to erupting volcanoes to ancient Greece.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives. As a Graduate Assistant during the fall 2022 semester, Rachel will support the ASHP/CML’s ongoing work to disseminate materials from the LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States summer institute.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

From 2013 to 2022, PUSD also received three federal magnet assistance program grants that allow it to bring more academic rigor to its schools. “We Since then, the district has expanded its initiatives and created new ones. In addition to Spanish and Mandarin, the district’s dual language immersion tracks now include French and Armenian.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. Then, in February 2022, the SCCT staged a new musical, Jubilee Barndance , one of the few live productions since the beginning of Covid. A Board was formed and, in 1970, Wann decided to leave the high school and take over operations.

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High School History Humanities Museum 52

Sapiens

APRIL 2, 2025

The seeds for my 2024 project at SAPIENS were initially planted when in 2022, I was selected as one of the fellows for the Sensitive Provenances Research Project hosted at the University of Gttingen in Germany. The archive was a burial site. In some, I listen for and try to sense unknown women.

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Archiving Heritage Museum Anthropology 77

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Journal : Evolutionary Anthropology , 2022. DOI : 10.1002/evan.21955

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Ancestry Anthropology Humanities Museum 111

Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. 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. link] Colwell, C.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In the early 2000s, we started to look again at supposed Altar Stone fragments in museum collections. But without directly sampling the Altar Stone, how could we be sure that the museum fragments were genuine? The suggestion stuck, and for 80 years, it went unchallenged. Nothing looked similar.

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Museum Archaeology Archiving Heritage 121

Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

That same year, another team, led by Berkeley’s Allan Wilson, reported DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like creature that went extinct in the late 1800s. About a decade after that, Päabo received the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. They found none. Once more, aDNA made headlines.

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Research Museum Anthropology Humanities 143

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. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. Some pundits called it a mistake.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But as Columbia has expanded its footprint, it has also become more of a drain on the city budget because of a state law more than 200 years old that allows universities, museums and other nonprofits to pay almost no property taxes. By 2022, that number had decreased to 1,416, or about 15 percent of the student body.

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Civics Public School Economics Museum 137

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. Photo by Dean Hesse, 2022. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2022, the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) started operating the nation’s first satellite-tracking center in Guija-eup, across from the Doteul cave. Space and science museums in South Korea promote outer space as the space of the future, where the children and students will one day have settlements or visit intergalactic hotels.

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Anthropology Government History Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. They painted the old brown concrete building white, hung college banners from the cafeteria ceiling, and set a goal of producing a total of one thousand college graduates by 2022. (In

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Charter School High School Cultures Public School 99

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023.

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Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. Impressed with her work, the national museum hired her as the director of archaeology. 15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. Her life proves women can not only break into male-dominated fields but excel in them.

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World History History Social Studies Archaeology 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

In January, EveryLibrary, a group that tracks legislation that puts school and college librarians, higher ed faculty and museum professionals at risk of criminal prosecution, identified 44 bills in 14 states as “ legislation of concern ,” for the 2024 session. This climate has teachers and librarians feeling fearful, confused and stressed.

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Library Heritage K-12 High School 133

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She is the author of five books, most recently Protecting the Ballot: How First Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2022).

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Political Science Social Science Economics Government 72

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. We see care for museums as an understanding of our role as stewards and as makers of physical and digital ecosystems.

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Museum Anthropology Archiving Cultures 98

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed that silk played a significant role in sacrificial rituals conducted by the Shu State during the late Shang Dynasty (1600–1100 BCE). The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly. Guolong, L.,

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Artifacts Archaeology Museum Cultures 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2025

This past fall, at an event in New York Citys National Museum of the American Indian, a packed room of educators and federal employees applauded the release of a document titled Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change.

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