Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Witnesses instead work to spread what they refer to as the truth to all humans.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So our reporters and editors have been reflecting on the articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us most this year and we’re sharing them with you. I also learned a lot from this Scientific American article, “ U.S. I find her cartoons , which are often an interpretation of human nature and behavior, fascinating and witty.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately. The state will terminate its contract with the organization at the end of this year.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Read the article by Lambert, Solem and Tani here. We need to counter the tide of fake news, which is lifted by AI and the actions of governments in more than one country. GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

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Political Science Now

JULY 5, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jae-Hee Jung and Scott Clifford, “Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive.” In a new APSR article, Jae-Hee Jung and Scott Clifford show that we don’t see all values as a matter of right and wrong. or “less or more government?”)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. However, black contractors have had to fight to gain government construction contracts in a city in which black people are the majority. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, Rocket Learning. Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. Programmatically, we reach about 1.5

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

But first, the data thief gives a prompt on background generate a story on Africa’s AI narrative result: Semafor article titled AI Ads Are Sweeping Across Africa Prompt. Generate a summary of the article. This is where artificial intelligence is about a mere tool that brings alive stories steeped in future thought.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

This model, which I reported on in an article last year for The Hechinger Report and Scientific American, requires a significant “discrepancy” between a child’s IQ and achievement to establish a learning disability, making it hard for children with lower IQs to qualify. It does not.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Dowda was leaving for work one morning in January 2024 and quickly scrolled through the news feed on her phone before heading out the door when she saw it — a news article announcing that 26 more schools would join the New Education System in the fall of 2024. Photo courtesy of Dowda. Dowda’s school was on the list. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

In a recent Hechinger Report article titled “ Is the college degree outdated ?” The Hechinger article quotes the executive director of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Whichever majors they choose, they also participate in athletics, in the arts, leadership programs, student government, service work and study abroad.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Beginning in 1997, a series of laws and regulations were put into place to monitor and fix how schools across the country put children of different races and ethnicities in special education. . “You’re more likely to be identified with a disability if you’re white and English speaking.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Students already using GenAI pointed to efficiency: “AI tools have significantly reduced the time I spend on research” or “I use AI tools to summarize articles for my assignments.” As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” Credit: Photographer: Alan Decker. For example, H.R.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond. But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 27, 2024

I argue repression can undermine development by delimiting human capital. The regime implemented a campaign of violence to reorganize society, yet governing elites varied across the communist ideological spectrum. Read the full article. I study the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human history, migration patterns, and evolutionary biology. However, the rapid advancements in this field have also brought forth ethical dilemmas, particularly concerning the treatment of ancient human remains and the potential impact of genetic findings on living communities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. We are no longer constrained by the whims and dictates of editors, broadcasters, governments, and other information gatekeepers. How about you? Related Posts.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fatwa’ed by the Sultan, abolished by Atatürk In addition to the five standard daily prayers, Bektashis have two additional prayers, at dawn and dusk, for the welfare of all humanity. And in Albania itself, some see the plan first and foremost as a distraction from the domestic scandals that are plaguing Edi Rama’s government.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

million words to Wikipedia, worked on over 4,200 different entries, and created 531 entirely new articles in a range of topics related to Political Science. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Like most of the people interviewed for this article, Kerrach spoke to me in French, through a translator.) The government does not have comparison figures from 2012 to show the precise rate of growth.). Two-year-old enrollment was also a priority for the French government in the 1990s, although the effort was abandoned in the 2000s.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. The Cephalic Index is still around today, but no longer to categorize humans. 81, and 85, respectively. Credit : George T.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Lemuria, the ancestral home of humanity? In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, as a way of explaining “missing links” in the fossil record of early humans. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Through the Institutional Partner program, De Gruyter is a trusted partner to support the goals, values, and brand of centers, societies, and organizations like the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. “We For more information, visit: www.apsanet.org.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

See the Quartz article linked below for a few examples.). Prince finds one – about how teaching and learning systems might become oriented around a holistic understanding of human development – to be particularly accessible for current educators. People like predicting the future. And people like reading predictions about the future.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Even though God is not mentioned in the Constitution, and the first amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion, various characteristics have identified the country as a Christian nation: 1. But the realization that human reason has limits led to a belief that there is no universal moral standard that can be known.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Writing a strong resumé for robot and human readers (Eye on Psi Chi) Thus, many companies have turned to automated software to help them discriminate among resumés. The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Foundations, the federal government and universities have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in doing research on almost everything in the field of education. In the field, there’s also what is almost an institutional bias against believing that what succeeds in Des Moines can also work in Cleveland, Fontana or Prairie Junction.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 26, 2024

But Jefferson held that humans had more than just those three rights; in 1803, he was particularly worried about “the natural right we have always insisted on with Spain; to wit that of a nation holding the upper part of streams, having a right of innocent passage thro’ them to the ocean” ( Jefferson to Breckinridge, August 12, 1803 ).

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