The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance. But being culturally responsive means teaching music where kids are, and with what interests them. I struggled.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Those relations left a permanent mark on the Peninsula and the vestiges of Ancient Roman culture still abound not only there, but also in other countries which came under Iberian influence. This issue is still avidly researched and debated by scholars of different fields. Inspirations in art. Mutual relations in the field of religion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work. Make coursework-career connections a campuswide priority. see College Scorecard ).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. This is action research on steroids!” This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ochre’s Role in Early Human Society Ochre, valued across cultures and eras, was more than a mere pigment; it was a cornerstone of symbolic and ceremonial life. In Eswatini, ochre remains significant in various cultural rituals, such as wedding ceremonies where brides are adorned with red ochre as a symbol of transformation and unity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

This kind of work pulls faculty, students and researchers away from grand, picturesque campuses with neat grassy quads like UVM’s and into neighborhoods like Bristol’s mobile home park, 30 miles away and a world apart, where people can be surprised to see them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The evidence that racism is directed at black people to impede their social and economic progress keeps growing (and growing), but discrimination persists. New, important research out of Stanford University, Harvard University and the U.S. Many are calling this research groundbreaking. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. This stands in contrast to interviews that take place in isolated settings in which the interviewee knows the interviewer only as a researcher, and not as neighbour, friend, co-er, or perhaps, (fictive) kin.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. The skyscrapers of Salt Lake City gave way to small towns surrounded by trees and mountains.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But following that, I decided to take three years and immerse myself in the study of social capital research for my doctoral dissertation. Having conducted much more research, including my own mixed-method study, I’m more convinced than ever: Schools need to focus more on social capital development. Here’s a taste of why — and how.

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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.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi] vi] These scholars are the generations of researchers inspired most notably by Robert Redfield’s Folk Urban Continuum.

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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. Over the next few years, she partnered with the rest of us, researchers focused on household water insecurity , epidemiology, and social work.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although, these categories of findings are often seen as ‘objective’ and scientific in nature and are not really linked to existing socio-cultural hierarchies, their use by the ruling dispensation like what Hoddar (2005) argues are nevertheless part of politics, politics of identity construction and formulation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. In that study, Chicago emerged as the nation’s most effective school district.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. OECD researchers wonder if the presence of physical books at home still matters in the digital age. OECD researchers are most worried about poorer students.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

The long history of ethnographic research especially because of the dominant paradigm of functionalism, scholars have been of the perception that villages were self sufficient units that doesn’t really have a strong connection with the urban centres. Its population is relativelv homogeneous in culture of origin.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In addition to long commutes, homesickness and culture shock, many students arrive underprepared in key subjects like math and science. Alyssa Ratledge is a research associate at MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that is conducting an evaluation of Montana 10.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 19, 2024

Researchers have discovered 1 a 4,000-year-old piece of fabric dyed with a rare and luxurious red dye in the Cave of the Skulls in the Judean Desert. One of the researchers stated, "The use of HPLC allowed us to detect and confirm the presence of the dye, tracing it back to the Kermes vermilio insect. 1 Sukenik, N., Davidovich, U.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2024

“AI is going to eat assessments for lunch,” said Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he co-authored a research series on the future of assessments. Piacentini said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs PISA, is exploring the possible use of AI in several realms.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. The study challenges conventional interpretations of radical right support as solely a rural phenomenon or a product of adverse economic conditions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These skills matter whether you’re hoping to score an A on a research presentation, perform a soliloquy or secure funding from a venture capitalist. Together they not only engage both sides of the brain, they bring us a fuller experience of the world — to say nothing of the economic opportunities.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country. That’s not to say schools fly entirely blind.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

UT Translation Symposium kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 15:03 Image April 19-20, 2024 Translation Across Time And Space The departments of Classics and World Languages and Cultures (WLC) are co-hosting their first symposium on literary translation on the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Friday, April 19 - Saturday, April 20, 2024.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Through intricate interactions and movements, farmers, agropastoralists, and herders have shaped the plateau's economic and cultural landscape. Unlocking Ancient Connections: Geospatial Insights and Archaeological Evidence A groundbreaking study 1 , conducted by researchers from Washington University in St. 1 Chen, X.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Research has found that students with obesity are more likely to get lower grades in reading and math and to repeat a grade, and twice as likely to be placed in special education or remedial classes. But a relatively new area of research has shifted attention to educator bias. Teachers are not immune to those attitudes,” she said.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

As we discussed all facets of the current educational landscape, buzzwords, fads, opinions, and trends, we came to the realization that there was a need to bring everything together, align all the talk to research, and illustrate through a practitioner lens how to transform teaching, learning, and leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies. News STEM Summit 2012.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

The settlement, whose surface material points to both the Vinča culture and the Banat culture (5400-4400 BCE), has a surface area of up to 13 ha and is surrounded by four to six ditches. Insights from Surface Surveys In tandem with geophysical surveys, the researchers scoured the surrounding landscape for surface artifacts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. We at EdSurge Research are shining a light on Asian American educators to uplift their unique stories and experiences.

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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. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2024

The tomb, belonging to an elite chief from the Coclé culture, reveals not only a trove of gold treasures but also a haunting glimpse into sacrificial rituals and burial customs of the past. 1 Martínez, E. DESCUBREN IMPORTANTE TUMBA CON SUNTUOSO AJUAR DE ORO EN PARQUE ARQUEOLÓGICO EL CAÑO.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches. The absence of a financial reward does not seem to hinder treasure hunting. What else may motivate one to search for treasures, then?

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