Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

We invite submissions that probe the anthropological dimensions of AI: how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling. How is AI (re)shaping what it means to be human? And is humanity shaping AI?

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Like all other members of his congregation, Jonah kept meticulous track of the hours he spent following Jesus command that disciples spread the Truth of biblical teachings to all nations.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

What Happens When Students Don’t Receive a Diploma Culturally, graduation is a right of passage and a source of immense pride. Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma. How will it shape their self image and how their loved ones see them?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

“I had been taught, in school, through cultural osmosis, that the flag wasn’t really ours, that our history as a people began with enslavement and that we had contributed little to this great nation.”. Not teaching slavery adequately has resulted in a massive hole in school curricula — and that didn’t happen by accident.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. My research explores how teachers work together to explore news ways of teaching and learning through makerspaces. Teaching Perseverence. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. They also noticed a reduction in discipline problems.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Anthropology News is the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) award-winning member magazine, and its focus is insightful anthropology stories for anthropologists and anyone with an interest in anthropology. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture. Emma Green, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has been spending time visiting these VR classrooms and researching the company for the magazine.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. The post What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 10, 2018

He addresses how best to teach languages to children and lays out evidence that multiple-language use on a regular basis may help delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Can teaching children two languages delay or confuse their understanding? This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. That is a working hypothesis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

What are you doing wrong that those students can’t learn the material you’re here to teach?’ In 1992, Treisman received one of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants , recognizing his transformational work; in 1999, Black Issues in Higher Education magazine named him one of the 20th century’s outstanding leaders in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

We’re still suffering from the consequences of the culture war, where the humanities in particular and also the social sciences and now even the sciences are seen as ideologically driven,” Hoeckley said. It’s an uphill fight,” said Hoeckley, who teaches philosophy. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what?

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Professor Oli Mould teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written three books about urban politics, theory and activism, as well as published work in academic journals, online magazines and newspapers. I've been reading the recent posts on Professor Oli Mould's blog tacity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

“Research has shown that when people are given reminders of their own mortality, they feel a sense of anxiety and insecurity, which they respond to by becoming more prone to status-seeking, materialism , greed, prejudice and aggression,” writes psychologist Steven Taylor in the industry magazine Psychology Today.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Many parents think a Montessori education encourages creativity and benefits children by providing unique teaching methods aimed at respecting young children and giving kids more control of their learning. Rachel Rodriguez teaches a small-group lesson in her classroom at Hill Country Montessori. But authenticity matters.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. How about a document on the 1920s?

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Edthena

MAY 30, 2019

A teacher from Australia details what she learned from watching video of her classroom teaching. After viewing the footage of my own teaching, I was tough on myself in my self-reflection but I knew that I could and would improve. Read more on The Teacher Magazine : What you might Learn From Watching Yourself Teach.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Teaching students about these heroes can inspire them to be advocates in their communities and reach for their dreams. He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb. Du Bois W.E.B. Du Bois, Wiki Commons W.E.B. Black community.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In “sharp contrast to other ages and other cultures,” Tough writes, “mobility in the United States today depends, in large part, on what happens to individuals during a relatively brief period in late adolescence and early adulthood.”. After he left McGill, in 1987, he landed a job at Harper’s magazine in New York City. He was 20. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

However, the state is currently being sued by the CSKT, as well as five other tribes, over the state’s failure over decades to adequately teach Indigenous curriculum despite a state mandate to do so. Sometimes the placement of (trust lands) affects cultural practices, or precludes cultural practices from happening on those tracts,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The trailer is just down the road from Hickory, a town Reader’s Digest named one of the 10 best places in America to raise a family and that business magazines have hailed for its entrepreneurial climate. “I tried to teach him what I know how to do,” said his father, Pepe. The efforts had incremental success.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

It is reprinted with permission from the Advocate, the magazine for the National Autism Society of America. . One can teach a child to name red versus green through prompting and differential reinforcement using colored cards. This article originally appeared on the Indiana Resource Center for Autism website. The Problem.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers ( transcript ): Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. And you’re the only student representing that culture at your school. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? .

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Passing in Japanese Society N arratives linking blood to culture shape the experiences of migrants in Japan. Growing up in 1960s Palestine, heused totranslate TIME Magazine articles into Arabic with his friends. Hamza is fluent in English.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

StarTalk Radio: Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, covering space, physics, and other science-related topics with humor and pop culture references. In Our Time This podcast teaches you a bit more about the history of scientific thought, as well as history, religion, and culture.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2021

Whiteness, meaning the institution that upholds white culture and affirms white ways of being as superior over other ways, seeks to sustain and protect itself. If we want to destroy white supremacy, we must teach our children to interrogate the white supremacy they encounter in the classroom. That’s how it survives.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

Have we yet mastered teaching reading by third grade, at scale?) In Time magazine, a teacher sensibly characterized SEL as “the base layer of education.” Sure, SEL practices vary widely in quality across schools and districts. And improving practice at scale is an enormous challenge, like so many areas in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. Adjunct professors are temporary faculty who are often hired on a semester basis to teach a class or two. Then we waited for fat envelopes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

After spending four years teaching at KIPP Central City Academy, part of a charter school network famous for its laser focus on getting poor students to and through college, Johnson decided charters needed to stop seeing any kind of vocational training as a trap for students deemed not college material.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I played guitar in a punk rock band, scoured music magazines, wrote song lyrics and even booked and promoted local concerts. Rather than allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace, schools are pressured by high-stakes testing to teach very specific standards by very specific deadlines. I don’t know.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In a recent survey of parents by the Fordham Institute, close to two-thirds of Republicans and more than half of Democrats said there is not enough time in the day to teach both academics and SEL. Still, advocates for SEL say they recognize the risks that come with being the latest front in the classroom culture wars.

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