Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Kistler, L.,

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. A Focus on Teachers “Teachers matter,” to quote the definitive Rand study.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These findings offer new insights into the evolutionary pathways of dexterity and cultural development that began long before the genus Homo emerged. sediba displayed substantial manipulation abilities, which, while not necessarily linked directly to stone tools, could indicate broader cultural behaviors. A new study shows that A.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

For Vinci, a nuclear engineer by training and an amateur historian by passion, the clues added up to a shocking revelation: Those Homeric stories, cornerstones of ancient Greek and modern Western culture, do not take place in and around Greece, in southern Europe, but rather near the Baltic Sea, in northern Europe.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Instead, I decided to try something new and share a story about one of my first experiences with deeper learning during a history course I took in college: My stomach twisted when I saw the 9 inch by 12 inch, black-and-white picture my professor was holding. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. No internet.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed American culture, in part by invigorating interest in diversity, equity and inclusion. The report, “ Equity: Definitions and Perspectives of U.S. Still, for the NWEA researchers, the takeaway from their report is that educators do share a broad definition of equity.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date. Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

And yet, that benign definition doesn’t explain why parents and communities started a standardized testing opt-out movement. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Racial Bias in Student Evaluation: The Role of Grading Scales. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

But a flurry of other bills and laws restricting what educators can teach—or even say—about history, literature, race, sexuality and other topics are alive and well. In a time of shifting definitions and “alternative facts,” we want math to be math (or maths if you’re British). Both failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Prompt generate a definition for NFT. Kagiso Mnisi: Is anything ever really new?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For most of history, women had very little educational opportunity, and the college spots available to them were in gender-segregated schools with fewer resources. That starts with acknowledgment that our culture enforces gender norms that can hurt boys and girls. So, why is it that men are falling behind in higher education?

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So Of all U.S. That makes her angry. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. It appears true that the very definition of “liberal arts” is a problem. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. The challenge to us now is to prove it.”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This tendency is first expressed through its course design — three of the four core courses on “anthropology” while the last one on history being arguably a sisterly discipline. The course was thus designed to be “anti-definition.” For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even in death people have value; history and culture remains. Dunbar Elementary School, said a month after the storm : “The people who were there should be the ones given the opportunity to rebuild… We know the history, we know the culture of the city, the district, and the people.”. Woods, then-principal of Paul L.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Culture wars on campus start to affect students’ choices for college About a fifth of Americans live in rural areas , according to the U.S. It’s definitely a big step for Chico to do something like this,” said Melendrez, whose hometown has about 1,500 people and whose high school class had about 15 students. “It Census Bureau.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

The underlying truth that human and natural life must come first, together, has been validated through centuries of history, here and on every other continent. Without it, a promising future by any definition is wishful thinking. Schools respond with money-management classes, which is better late than never, but it takes a lot more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A lot of the definitions for personalized learning mention differentiation, being student-centered, and engaging students – goals Koufman-Frederick, a veteran Massachusetts educator and administrator, said teachers have always aspired to. MAPLE’s definition of personalized learning emphasizes what is different today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions. But such a classification conflicts with its own discipline-related definition and state guidance. Last month he announced the creation of a public tip line to identify districts doing exactly this.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To Now she wants others to learn that history. Many charter groups came in wanting to change the culture of the schools they took over. But sometimes, McKneely said, his history and his test scores don’t matter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

A dual-language program is definitely a way to attract students.” The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. So it's definitely been a challenge,” she says. All institutions are thinking of how they can branch into new student demographics,” she says. “A

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. Eleven-year-old DeVonté Trask was busy playing a typing game on the computer. Where there’s money, that fuels the fire,” said Barbot.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 11, 2023

Credit : Niels van Iperen/Getty Images) Culturally, decades don’t conform to their calendar definitions. But Nevermind is the inflection point where one style of Western culture ends and another begins, mostly for reasons only vaguely related to music.” Nirvana, the sad/sarcastic band that kickstarted the 1990s.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Researchers delve into the earliest chapters of European settlement by investigating ancient skull fragments from Crimea, shedding light on the crucial role played by the first modern humans in shaping the continent's history. These findings, part of a recent study 1 , are paramount in understanding the roots of early European civilizations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

history at a high school in East Palo Alto while she wraps up her coursework. So for me, seeing what was going on with the culture wars and seeing all these teachers leaving after the pandemic, I felt like if any time is the right time to do this, it's now. This year, she’s teaching U.S. And it was a long time coming.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

I was also fortunate to find colleagues and peers who challenged me to try new things that, from the outside, had nothing to do with traditional librarianship or my background in English and history. If you had asked me early on if I was a “maker,” I would’ve said no, especially when I was a student in school.

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