Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

SEE Learning is a K-12 curriculum developed through a collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Ward discussed key anthropological findings regarding the effectiveness of translanguaging , or the intuitive mixing of multiple languages, in teaching and learning.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

K–12 schools in the U.S. Some universities are defunding and dismantling programs in archaeology , history , anthropology , art history , ancient languages , and classical studies. Meanwhile, it seems few people know what archaeologists actually do. rarely cover the field.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 145

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Richard Wrangham, a retired professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, noted 2 that starch grains can be detected in teeth dating back at least 50,000 years. 1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K.

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Humanities History Archaeology K-12 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Animata Diop completes an assignment in anthropology class. NEW YORK — Aminata Diop, a senior at Broome Street Charter Academy in Lower Manhattan, slipped out of her anthropology class and headed down the school’s spiral staircase, her North Face backpack slung over her shoulder. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation. I’m an archaeologist anthropologist who started writing in the anthropology publication about 15 years ago and had the seed idea of what would become SAPIENS and brought it to fruition. That topically we are focusing on anthropology.

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Anthropology Archaeology Artifacts Heritage 122

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Iowa overall v.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. One of the first to apply to the new program was a library security guard.

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