Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

While sites in Iberia, Greece, and the Levant reveal a flourishing network of trade, agriculture, and technology, North Africa—except for Egypt—has often been cast as an empty land, a region untouched by the cultural currents shaping the rest of the ancient world. This is a crucial detail.

Cultures 98

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging.

Tradition 138

Tradition Tutoring High School Cultures 138

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Where there still is forced change turmoil, economic instability, and mistrust run rampant. This is also where it is sustained to the point that it becomes an embedded component of school and/or district culture. These successes can then be promoted within the school and district to serve as a catalyst for cultural transformation.

K-12 348

K-12 Leadership Professional Development Cultures 348

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Students will love studying popular culture while immersing themselves in some pretty rad times! Political Culture Politics and culture came together during the 80s. Political Culture Politics and culture came together during the 80s. From political aspects to pop culture, there was always something going on.

Cultures 130

Cultures Social Studies Economics Tradition 130

Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

​ These findings challenge the traditional timeline, which places the advent of copper metallurgy in the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE. This suggests the existence of extensive exchange networks during this period, highlighting a level of socio-economic complexity not typically attributed to hunter-gatherer groups.​

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Artifacts Archaeology Humanities History 90

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. How were those pots used?

Archaeology 130

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This discovery reshapes our understanding of early animal domestication and its cultural significance in Predynastic Egypt. 2024.106104 The Discovery at Hierakonpolis Hierakonpolis, located about 100 kilometers from modern-day Luxor, was a thriving center of Predynastic Egyptian culture and an early hub of political power.

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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. There is a clear need and dependency on both.

Education 114

Education Economics Tradition Humanities 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. Then I got to a middle school in the same district in a neighborhood with kids who were less economically advantaged. I played in ensembles. I struggled.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. As LinkedIns chief economic opportunity officer notes, relationship skills are essential in an increasingly relationship economy. Thats why some of the most effective initiatives dont look like traditional schools at all.

Humanities 64

Humanities Economics Professional Development High School 64

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.’

Heritage 130

Heritage Cultures Economics Tradition 130

Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

At one end of the continuum was the "modern" city of Merida, while at the other was a small, "traditional" indigenous village. Thus Merida was a modern city populated with many individuals who participated in national and international affairs, were relatively free to make social and economic decisions, and had modern worldviews.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Tradition Economics Cultures 130

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 135

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. They know what their strengths are. They know how to ask for accommodations at work.

High School 127

High School Library Government Public School 127

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

High School 145

High School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

K-12 130

K-12 Education Policy Leadership Economics 130

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. Political, economic and commercial relations in the ancient times. Material culture remains from the Roman times on the Peninsula’s territory.

Cultures 52

Cultures Tradition History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

These new roles could become the “blue-collar” jobs of the future — the positions that can promise middle-class security without necessarily requiring a traditional higher-education degree. Employers who build cultures to support these future opportunities will attract the best talent.

Economics 68

Economics Education Tradition Humanities 68

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

Economics 144

Economics Archiving Tradition Government 144

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. They stand out. Sign up for our newsletter.

Cultures 82

Cultures Elementary School Public School Economics 82

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Cultures Tradition Psychology 130

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. Students seeking a traditional four-year college experience in their home state must travel more than 225 miles to Montana State University in Billings.

Education 140

Education Economics Tradition Cultures 140

Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry.

Anthropology 100

Anthropology Sociology Economics Cultures 100

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. How is AI changing teaching and learning strategies?

Advocacy 127

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 127

Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The scheme aims at planning their socio-economic development in a comprehensive manner while retaining the culture and heritage of the community by adopting habitat development approach and intervening in all spheres of their social and economic life, so that a visible impact is made in improvement of the quality of life of PVTGs.

Heritage 100

Heritage Economics Tradition Leadership 100

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most? The students.

Civic Engagement 128

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

Tradition 134

Tradition Cultures High School Middle School 134

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.

Economics 139

Economics Research Tradition Cultures 139

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

Cultures 111

Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.

Economics 121

Economics Cultures Community Engagement Research 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. “A Help all students identify their unique value to the group.

Leadership 111

Leadership Classroom Management Middle School Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

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. On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Middle School Tradition Civics 145

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. This includes the academic achievement commonly referenced by “learning loss,” but reaches beyond it to institutional knowledge and school culture. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

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?

Economics 128

Economics Tradition Humanities Cultures 128

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.) The solution?

Social Science 145

Social Science Tradition High School Economics 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . So what are they? Microcredentials are certifications of mastery; badges verify the attainment of specific competencies.

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