Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Notes from the UNI Education Summit in Cedar Falls, Iowa a couple of weeks ago… Website. I’m glad there are so many educators here; I always feel safer in a room of teachers! He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education. The city department of education sent me out as a substitute. My first day was in kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Sheridan’s course is an example of an approach known as “campus as a living lab,” which seeks to simultaneously educate students and reduce the carbon footprint of college campuses. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“It’s no longer enough to just be thinking about helping our students across the completion finish line,” said Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer at Strada Education Network, which is helping to fund the project. Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer, Strada Education Network.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She was sitting in front of a desktop Dell in a converted brownstone in New York City, clicking through lessons in an online psychology class about stress, when she heard the word “resilience” for the first time. The Department of Education does not track leaves of absence. It resonated. Read the series. It was a million little things.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

(1935-2024) On July 5, 2024 Dr. Alan Harwood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, died at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts surrounded by his children, Jessica and Seth Harwood, and his wife, Margot Welch.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

1929-2024 Leonard Glick Leonard Glick—educator, scholar, anthropologist, former psychiatrist, and wit—passed away peacefully at home with his family shortly after turning 94. In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And even as college and university enrollment overall declines, some career and technical education programs are reporting growth, and anticipating more of it. “I “I spent a lot of money to end up doing … this,” said Kelly, who is now 28, as his colleagues stowed the equipment before they filed back into a classroom.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In each book, Van Stockum studies the surrounding area’s anthropological history and the people’s culture to better understand Kentucky’s history. In addition to the “Surrounding ” series, Van Stockum has also written several scientific articles, post-apocalyptic novels, psychological thrillers, and even romance.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that nearly 90% of counseling center directors report that the number of students on campus with severe psychological problems has continually increased, and counseling centers struggle to keep up with the demand.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 22, 2023

Culture and Personality Culture and personality is the name of a broad unrecognized movement which brings cultural anthropology, psychology and psychiatry together from about 1928 to 1955. After 1960s the field becomes known as psychological anthropology. For Benedict emotional status are typical of particular culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Conservative politicians today increasingly see social studies teachers as targets, attendees said.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The ASDC, established in 1992, is not just an educational institution but a nonprofit organization that provides a whole host of services to deaf Gazans, including vocational training, audiology and speech therapy, community training and awareness-raising programs, and even a restaurant.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education. Department of Education; 5.3 This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the case of international development, it was not a matter of material reparation or a revision in the global balance of power, but was instead a matter of overcoming one’s psychological biases inherited from the prior colonial era. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, theyre very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. There’s a lot more than just getting an education. READ MORE. “As

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