The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

But, these tropical foods like banana and pineapple are not part of my heritage or my culture, so I don’t feel like I’m losing that identity by not consuming those foods. There’s no one best diet for every person, and you have to consider your access, your means, culture, and your preferences.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers. While most African countries have defined guidelines for obtaining research permits and heritage is closely legislated, São Tomé lacks pertinent regulations.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa. The Oakhurst site, which dates back over 12,000 years, provides a unique opportunity to explore southern Africa's genetic and cultural history. Oakhurst rock shelter, original excavation by Goodwin 1932-1935.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. This is particularly concerning because engagement and cultural relevance have both been proven to have a positive impact on student outcomes. are experts at filtering, organizing and connecting information.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

For Gen Zers and millennials like me, the Nye-Ham debate provided real information in an accessible and entertaining way. I’m a relatively unknown scholar who can share the cultural achievements of past people around the world. Pseudoarchaeology robs Indigenous peoples of their heritage.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 1, 2024

Insights from a recently studied dictionary offer invaluable historical context, enhancing modern appreciation of the Yaghan culture's profound heritage and its bond with the Tierra del Fuego landscape. Dictionaries, it turns out, can be excavated for rich information missing from the archeological record. Read more

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

To help Native communities heal from that trauma, the report recommends an explicit federal policy of cultural revitalization, one that supports the work of Indigenous peoples and tribes to preserve and strengthen their languages and cultures. In America, you’re seen as less than, as lower if you don’t know English.

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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. But at least if you had some greater level of information you could try. ” But this is rarely the case.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. Her watchwords are “cultural humility, cultural relevance and the cultural landscape.” Here in Albuquerque there’s different cultures.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Jamaal Matthews, a former math teacher turned researcher and professor at Montclair State University, recommends that teachers elicit information from their students on the “4 Hs” to build student-centered instruction: home, hobbies, hopes, and heritage.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

This discovery lends further support to the emerging "tripartite origins" theory, suggesting that the genetic heritage of the Japanese population is far more complex than earlier models suggested. This migration wave was also accompanied by the adoption of Chinese-style laws, language, and cultural practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. . —

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But the work also produces knowledge relevant for the Wajãpi people: I share with them information about federal laws related to cultural heritage and environmental protection. Academic scholars benefit from new data in an area never surveyed before by university-trained archaeologists.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Fannin points to hunter-gatherer cultures where individuals have been known to scale trees as tall as 150 feet to gather food. Dominy notes, “Hinton was at the forefront of this cultural moment that embraced nature as essential to fitness, but it focused on bipedalism. ” The Debate Over Playground Safety: Risks vs. .”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2023

A white-passing student in the group expressed his hesitance in speaking Spanish and claiming his heritage because he didn’t want to be accused of appropriation. We are open to the ideas of different cultures,” said another. A multiethnic student shared how uncomfortable it makes her when people, especially adult men, call her “exotic.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

Acquired in 1885, this artifact offers insights into Indigenous communication methods and cultural symbolism. Instead, he posits them as sophisticated tools for social coordination, validation, and the transmission of nuanced non-linguistic information. 1 Kelly, P., Bibiko, H.-J., J., & Barker, L. PloS One , 19 (4), e0299712.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

When someone calls Native and Strong, the counselor answers by identifying themselves and their tribal or cultural affiliation. Related: A vexing drawback to online tribal college: Social and cultural isolation A non-Native state representative, Tina Orwall, identified the need for a tribal 988 line and advocated for its funding.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Recent archaeological studies in Sicily reveal crucial information about early human migration into the Mediterranean islands. New findings from coastal and underwater caves in southern Sicily suggest a deeper understanding of Homo sapiens ' movements and survival strategies during their initial colonization of the island.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We seek to uncover the myriad ways in which treasures, both tangible and intangible, are perceived, created, sought after, and understood across different cultures and throughout time. The pursuit of linguistic treasures: documenting languages and preserving linguistic heritage.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 6, 2024

Now, a collaborative effort led by researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Reading, along with the Lower Saxony State Office for Cultural Heritage, has unveiled groundbreaking insights into the woodworking techniques employed by our ancient ancestors.

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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. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A scholar of Sikkimese religions and cultures, Kalzang saw plastic khatak and lungta when visiting his relatives’ newborns. They also appear in many other connected cosmologies on and around the Tibetan plateau, including in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Mongolia, and Tibetan cultural areas of the People’s Republic of China.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Citing federal regulations against school-sanctioned activities that could “ directly or indirectly restrict the sale or marketing ” of cow’s milk, school administrators refused to greenlight Williamson’s second event — unless she agreed to also distribute pro-dairy information. It felt wrong.” In the U.S.,

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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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture. Does using WeChat qualify someone to be “Chinese”? “So, So, you are not like a real Chinese.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? As Black Nordics, we live in countries that top “Happiest Nation in the World” lists yearly, lists that often make cursory mention of racial-cultural homogeneity as a key contributor to national happiness.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

And if all that still left things in doubt, he could always ask the king to send out scouts to check or complement the available information. He also ranslated the information on that planisphere onto rectangular maps, each of which was exhaustively annotated. The job was finished in 1154. foot (2-m) wide silver disk.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

The Secret History , the only native and near-contemporary source of information on the 13th-century Mongols, is as reticent about the Khan’s death as it is detailed about his life. Perhaps this is because illness and death were great taboos in Mongol culture. As such, we are left mainly with legends and speculation.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They’re informative, compelling, and even, at times, pretty darn funny, so make sure to check out one, two, or even all of these great science programs the next time you’re looking for a little edutainment. It’s more serious than some of the previous podcasts we’ve mentioned, but more informative as well.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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