Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., 2022, among many). 2023, and Ouyang et al., Procedia CIRP , 119 , 84-90. Zheng, L., & Jiao, P.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

In March of 2022, I worked with a school system in Provo, Utah. Packed with practical examples, research-based strategies, and stories, any educator can find the most effective way to personalize learning. Each chapter is supported by research, practical strategies, and anecdotal stories for essential context.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic. Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.s $33 When researchers looked at these students test scores, they found minimal to modest improvements in reading or math. For one student, 1.3

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics. Other teams rushed to conduct similar research. In a 1990 Nature study , researchers claimed to have extracted DNA from a nearly 20-million-year-old fossil of a magnolia leaf.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s the contradiction at the heart of what education researchers call “subitizing,” from the Latin “subito” or suddenly, and it means to instantly see how many, much like the way we glance at a die and see four dots without counting, “one, two, three, four.” Some might see two groups of three plus an extra dot. Now he forgot it.’

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

New Zealand does not track streaming or ability grouping by race or ethnicity, but surveys show it is common: Eighty percent of students are in schools that group students by ability level in mathematics, according to a 2022 survey conducted by the Program for International Student Assessment. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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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 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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff, said Dan Goldhaber, an economist at the American Institutes for Research. Schmidt says it will take more time for researchers to gather this data and analyze it. Source: 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) An abysmal showing by U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

According to the most recent NAEP results , between 2019 and 2022, student performance in data analysis, statistics and probability fell by a full 10 points for eighth grade students, representing what some experts consider a full grade level in lack of progress. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 Dual enrollment is exploding. That’s up from 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Roughly 7 in 10 Americans support school cellphone bans, at least in class, according to the Pew Research Center ; another third favors a ban for the entire school day. Even the new U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has praised such restrictions. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Average reading scores of fourth and eighth graders scoring in the 90th percentile werent statistically different from 2022 to 2024, and scores among high flyers in both grades have held fairly steady over the past three decades. That would more than make up for the reading backslide NAEP recorded between 2022 and 2024, Barnett argues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. For the past 25 years, U.S.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2025

​ Tracing the Origins To determine the provenance of these artifacts, researchers employed X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technology, analyzing 383 obsidian pieces from 96 sites across Alberta. Through advanced sourcing techniques, researchers continue to piece together the routes and relationships that defined ancient North America.

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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. This sparked my interest as it dovetailed with my ongoing research about factors that influence menstrual cycles, such as energetic stress or immune stress. This provided early access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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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. The researchers argue that interbreeding alone should not determine species classification.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Source: Ambio, 2022. Source: People and Nature, 2020. 1 Díaz, S., Demissew, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. What research substantiates your product or service?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Key Evidence Supporting Genealogy The breakthrough in this research emerged when a particularly unique plaque in Lisbon’s Museu Geológico caught Professor Lillios’s attention. Journal : Scientific Reports , 2022. zigzags, triangles), and a transitional band between these sections. Book : De Gruyter , 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Research shows that a flexible understanding of numbers is strongly correlated to later math achievement and the ability to solve problems presented in different ways. Unlike the recent surge of evidence on science-based reading instruction, research and emphasis on number sense isnt making its way into schools and classrooms in the same way.

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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. Stone Selection as a Window into Hominin Cognition The researchers aimed to understand how early Acheulian toolmakers selected stones for their tools.

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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. Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. How Did Neanderthals Make Tar? Scientific Reports, 13 , 16578. 147–165.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. and Bulled, N. New York: Routledge.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2022, when the first postpandemic results came back, the nations report card revealed historic declines in math performance, as well as declines in reading scores for fourth and eighth graders. Still, Kurz and researchers like him hope to find lessons about the causes of the disparities in coming weeks.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

In these sites, researchers have identified numerous child-sized hand stencils and finger tracings. Further Reading For those interested in exploring related research: de Beaune, S. The Role of Children in the Upper Paleolithic: Evidence from Finger Flutings in French Caves." Journal of Archaeological Science , 137, 105542.​

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Bae of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and senior researcher Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on a complex evolutionary period in Asia’s late Middle and early Late Pleistocene. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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Anthropology.net

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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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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