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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. It is crucial to understand that decolonizing efforts in museums do not equate to an immediate, wholesale return of cultural material. Unlike the U.K.,

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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

It begins by examining the strategies in place at each school or district that support student learning with technology in the areas of rigor, relevance, relationships, engagement, and overall culture. Additional data is collected and archived in the PLP during classroom observations.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression.

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Every Schools' Obligation

A Principal's Reflections

that information can be accessed, adapted, archived, and shared by anyone who has access to their accounts. As they published their own work in the form of learning artifacts, they begin to create a positive digital footprint that they could be proud of. comments, pictures, videos, etc.),

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. 10 million ($15.4

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Their remains and the artifacts found with them shed light on this major turning point in human evolution. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. It’s unclear if they ever arrived.