Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Credit: Murtaja Lateef Souk al-Shorja, Baghdad’s oldest market, summer 2023. During a brief visit to Iraq in the heat of summer 2023, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared , “The era of global boiling has indeed begun.” Credit: Murtaja Lateef Al-Sinak Street, summer 2023.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating. Six of them were human and three of them I had ChatGPT generate. The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGPT.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Department of Education made a change in 2023 by classifying naval architecture in tandem with the related field of marine engineering.) If your boat’s no longer floating upright for a variety of reasons, and you're trying to figure out what's next, are there human lives at stake that we need to get off? Are we gonna refloat the boat?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 A February 2024 report about a research-and-development program inside the Department of Education makes this truth crystal clear. The failure rate was 74 percent. Source: IES , February 2024. Health research receives nearly $50 billion.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Government Accountability Office. Moving all students to a September start date “would put the district in the best position to avoid excessive heat days during the upcoming school year,” said Milwaukee Public Schools Chief Human Resources Officer Adria Maddaleni during a December 2023 meeting. 27 and Aug.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was awarded to Dr. Claudia Goldin, for " for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes. ” 5 Evaluate intended and unintended consequences of government policies created to improve market outcomes E.4.ECON.3 Prize announcement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The think tank Rand recently reported in its 2023 State of the American Teacher survey that two-thirds of teachers nationally said they were limiting discussions about political and social issues in class. She became passionate about climate justice and the human impact on the environment, and ended up majoring in urban forestry.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Between them, they earned too much to qualify for government help. “I Banner / The Seattle Times The dilemma is common in the United States, where high-quality child care programs are prohibitively expensive, government assistance is limited, and daycare openings are sometimes hard to find at all. Credit: Ellen M.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Legacy admissions began to get more attention after the Department of Education initiated a civil rights investigation in July 2023 into Harvard’s legacy practice. In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong. But who is excluded from that community?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Although publicly available chatbots had only been in the mainstream for one semester when we surveyed (fall 2023), 71% of students indicated they thought that GenAI would become an essential part of most professions. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” For example, H.R.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

But the funds ran out in September 2023. Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. prisons and jails.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Districts in the study reported staffing barriers at every level—teachers, substitutes, human resources personnel, teacher trainers. One of the report’s recommendations calls on the federal government to extend the deadline for emergency fund use , coming up soon in January 2023. Will hiring teachers get easier?

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

In December 2023, the U.S. A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. Government and communities have a responsibility to make living with sickle cell bearable—even convenient. However, there are variations in genes that have been linked with resistance to malaria.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. In each essay, Green examines an element or experience of being human today — the QWERTY keyboard, sunsets, Dr Pepper, Canada geese — and then rates it out of five stars.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

decline in ad spending in 2023, according to WARC, with a modest recovery expected in 2024, primarily driven by 6.1% And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. Third point. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced an 11.6 Reconnect to essay.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was invited to speak in a Pardee Keynote Symposium on “Encouraging Positive Mental Health in the Geosciences” at the 2023 Geological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Credit: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2023). The research signifies a pivotal step in comprehending the socio-economic dynamics and adaptive strategies of early human societies in mountainous terrains, enriching our understanding of the complexities that shaped human evolution during the Neolithic period. Gassiot, E.,

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

He is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University. Mark also explores and critiques the field of political science through symposia on academic conferences, ideology in the classroom, and ideology within the discipline.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7, 2023 • by Studies Weekly There are countless scientific breakthroughs and advancements over the years that have significantly shaped our world for the better. Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. 2, 2020, for AIP.org.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

Creating Sustainability As of May 22, 2023, AAAJ Chicago has trained more than 1,400 educators virtually and in person and some districts have held their own trainings, but this only represents a small fraction of educators teaching in Illinois.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tzu Chi also extends sentience to Mother Earth, whom Master Cheng Yen frequently invokes as a suffering entity due to human destructiveness. The Taiwan government now champions multiculturalism and the teaching of indigenous languages and cultures in the schools. The government wants to protect wildlife populations in the mountains.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.”

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”. Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

His posthumously published The Dawn of Everything , an ambitious reconsideration of human history co-written with archaeologist David Wengrow , became an international bestseller. More trade books of Graebers writing were released posthumously in 2023 and 2024. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: Do Things Have to Be This Way?

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Since the 1970s, Japanese society has increasingly relied on migrants to fill a variety of jobs, although the government has been slow to acknowledge or support them. Between 2018 and 2023, foreign labor grew by over 40% with a growing number of workers coming from South and Southeast Asia. I dont even feel human even sometimes.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 14, 2024

Check out this list of lessons that were most frequently downloaded from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year! government. The post Popular Lessons in 2023–2024 appeared first on Zinn Education Project. How do we know?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. Ultimately, she said, state and federal governments need to step up. “We

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

With anxiety over AI growing , the federal government published its blueprint for how to keep privacy from flatlining in the digital age. For example: Guidance on using AI for teaching and learning is slated for 2023 , later than deadlines for other government agencies.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Instead, in April, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced it would extend the enrollment-based subsidy reimbursements through August of 2024. “If The state had planned to revert back to attendance-based reimbursements in September, at the same time that the child care stabilization grants were set to expire.

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