The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

Social Justice 129

Social Justice Humanities Archival Research Critical Thinking 129

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Mastering their art also includes developing essential “soft skills,” such as organization, time management, collaboration, empathy, public speaking and persuasion, as well as planning and budgeting, multitasking, self-regulation and the development of cultural awareness, to name a few.

Education 117

Education Economics Tradition Humanities 117

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. It taught civilian survival and resilience.

Humanities 104

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

Humanities 98

Humanities Heritage Archaeology Artifacts 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The news anchor seemed very knowledgeable and responsive but don’t expect a warm handshake. Related: Go vote.

Humanities 109

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 109

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Project Title:A Culture of Consensus: Congruence and collective choice among the Tswana Julio S. His research focuses on the cultural foundations of political and economic development across human societies. He employs a multidisciplinary approach, combining ethnographic methods and experimental economics.

Cultures 38

Cultures Political Science Economics Government 38

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

Anthropology 134

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 134

TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Learn to use mathematical software tools like MATLAB or R for computations. Science Science goals encompass a broad scope of fields: Master the basic concepts of Newtonian physics.

History 209

History Economics Humanities Cultures 209

Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. Places and cultures are proud of what they see as their accomplishments that are foundational to their heritage. But perhaps we should reconsider our ideas about so-called ‘national dishes.’

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

Humanities 85

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 85

Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

But tying us down strips our humanity away. Concluding Thoughts: Towards a Culture of Care Law 30490 the Law of the Elderlyin Peru stipulates that the countrys long-term care facilities should provide their residents with comprehensive care depending on their needs. Thats the only way for them to be safe.

Cultures 59

Cultures Anthropology Geography Economics 59

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

We know that these disparities can shrink when patients are cared for by doctors who share their cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. This creates a culture of aspiration in which success feels both possible and accessible, shifting societal perceptions and inspiring future generations to aim higher. The problem?

K-12 66

K-12 Cultures High School Humanities 66

Anthropology.net

MAY 24, 2024

Introduction: A Landmark Discovery in Qaleh Kurd Cave In a momentous archaeological breakthrough, French and Iranian researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of early human habitation in Iran's Central Plateau, pushing back the known timeline of human settlement in the region by an astonishing 300,000 years.

Archaeology 105

Archaeology Heritage Artifacts Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2024

Piacentini said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs PISA, is exploring the possible use of AI in several realms. And they could help tailor tests to a student’s specific cultural and educational context. PISA, the influential international test, expects to integrate AI into the design of its 2029 test.

Humanities 136

Humanities Professional Development Cultures Economics 136

Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.” This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Government Economics Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Employers who build cultures to support these future opportunities will attract the best talent. Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have proven the plasticity of the human brain, revealing how it can continue to change throughout one’s lifetime. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

Economics 66

Economics Education Tradition Humanities 66

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

When I was a student, as the child of Mexican immigrants, I felt pressure to leave my own stories and experiences outside to fit into my classrooms’ cultures. Perhaps most importantly, we found ways to connect our lessons to students’ communities and cultures — to make learning personal. Sign up for our newsletter.

Cultures 83

Cultures Elementary School Public School Economics 83

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

From that dividing line, the American Dream guarantees safety, education, economic stability and outright survival for many Mexican and Central American people. As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today.

Heritage 119

Heritage Humanities Economics Cultures 119

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

American History 124

American History High School Cultures History 124

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Sociology Economics Cultures 100

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2022

But most who use the term analytically narrow it to mean some form of political unit, as distinct from "ethnie" or "nation," which suggest a cultural identity. Morgan’s Ancient Society (1861) and Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871) that made investigation on Tribal society a systematic enterprise.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Humanities History Cultures 130

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Psychology 130

ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

Economics 52

Economics K-12 Civics History 52

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

This years series will explore ideas and examples of transformational and adaptive leadership through history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture. We are interested in sources from the diverse cultures of the ancient Mediterranean basin, not merely limited to Greece and Rome, but also Persia, Phoenicia, Lydia, Egypt, Etruria, etc.,

Leadership 52

Leadership Pedagogy Economics Cultures 52

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

EdSurge: How do higher education institutions balance the need for tuition increases with the imperative to remain accessible to students from diverse economic backgrounds? This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly. This is known as the WIIFM factor.

Government 130

Government Humanities Cultures Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

Humanities 104

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Many of the insights that Finland has put into classroom practice have come from the United States and are applicable to children and cultures the world over.

Education 112

Education Economics Civics Government 112

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

School leaders are increasingly turning to organizations like the World Economic Forum and analyzing data on the most in-demand skills for the next five years. Brian Johnsrud The latest World Economic Forum Jobs Report highlights the top skills that will rise in importance by 2027.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 126

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The grant will help Lumen bring together the company’s three separate platforms for humanities, professional development and online homework management, executives from the company say. Most important, the nonprofit says, is the framework for “open and culturally responsive practice” they’ve developed that’s best practice for OER.

Professional Development 123

Professional Development Economics Humanities Cultures 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, a recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work — because employers are looking for more than simply the latest technical skills. Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. “A

Leadership 111

Leadership Classroom Management Middle School Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That demands flexibility on the part of teachers.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent.

Economics 127

Economics Tradition Humanities Cultures 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. We must value families’ humanity by making them part of the solution, rather than always making decisions for them and centering only ourselves as the experts. That is why this exception concept is truly insidious.

Elementary School 132

Elementary School Public School Humanities Community Engagement 132

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Every child deserves a high-quality education that recognizes and respects his or her dignity and humanity, and that relishes in the stories of school and community. This way forward could be the way forward for the nation.

Humanities 108

Humanities Cultures Leadership Economics 108

Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

Anthropology 135

Anthropology Government Cultures Psychology 135