Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

One such revelation, echoing from the annals of time, is the groundbreaking book, “ The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved, ” written by British archaeologist Steven Mithen. million years ago.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school. With over 1.3

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

In addition to this Lincoln investigation, my students wanted to explore our community’s sundown town heritage, an episode of Native American protests, unresolved episodes of violence and murder, postindustrial decline, and even a local witch trial that occurred in our region before the Civil War.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 12, 2024

the plague of the Georgics in relation to that at Athens in Thucydides Book 2; see Reed 2007: 78 on Timaeus as the source for Pygmalions murder of Sychaeus in the Dido story), and other prose such as Attic rhetoric. Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition. and Sandro La Barbera at sandro.labarbera@unitn.it Papaioannou, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Dual-language programs most commonly exist as subsets of traditional high schools, where select students take classes in a language other than English, though generally not for a full half of each day. Their classroom libraries stock books by Isabel Allende and other Latin American literary giants. “In

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. She’ll get home and she’ll read a book,” she said. Elsewhere in the Deep South, charters have lived up, or rather down, to that fear.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students.

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Pedagogy and Formation

JUNE 26, 2023

I offer a number of vignettes in my book to illustrate how practices inside and outside school classrooms can at times be problematic and in need of intervention. For example, in my book I describe a practice within a College where I was Master, and how tricky it was to change. Let me share a few of these.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Books are one of the most powerful ways to learn about others and ourselves. Education professor Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop famously described it this way: “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. It’s been over a decade since I read Ravitch’s book, and the question of school choice is still being tossed around.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Websites like We Need Diverse Books and Diverse Book Finder are great places to start. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. The traditions are different. So the culture is different. The dialect of Arabic that’s spoken is very different.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

Al-Idrisi’s main achievement, a huge atlas known as the Book of Roger , would remain authoritative for hundreds of years. Map of the Indian Ocean, from al-Idrisi’s Book of Roger. AI-Idrisi’s world map, reconstituted from the 70 maps in the Book of Roger. And the man’s biography is as exceptional as his work.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style, houses genuine relics and is an important sanctuary for the shamanic worship of the legendary Mongol leader. When you drive north toward Ordos City in China’s Inner Mongolia province, you can’t miss the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, state legislatures have passed bills to ban “age-inappropriate” books from schools, in many cases subjecting teachers and school librarians to criminal charges for possession of such books. Having books by, about and for LGBTQ+ students, she said, “does not mean we are out there promoting it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. The school’s logo is a torch like that on the Statue of Liberty, and there’s a school tradition of holding up clenched fists to show unity and pride. Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.) That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools. The schools mascot is the eagle.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. The Bradley Foundation ( a longtime supporter of author and columnist Charles Murray , whose infamous 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” calls for the U.S. secretary of education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 1926, he originated the celebration of Black History Week and is the author of 16 books about African Americans. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 with hopes that black people would be proud of their heritage and that mainstream America would recognize the contributions of its black residents. Photo: AP Photo.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 with hopes that black people would be proud of their heritage and that mainstream America would recognize the contributions of its black residents. I’m indebted to the people, places and traditions I’ve been introduced to in February. Kendi’s book provides a thorough reading of U.S.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. Political scientist Barbara Walter tracks the phenomenon of rising anti-government violence in regions around the globe in her book How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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