Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). The report included what is now one of the most widely recognised definitions of sustainable development.

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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. The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

So the definition of being in the classroom, or the leniency of coming into the classroom because of health, has I think changed a lot. And now we have more humane guidelines around that. You think there might be an economic prompt, if nothing else, to maximize this experience, but it sounds like that's not the case for everybody?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

The devastating economic stress of the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, marks a critical moment of reflection to give definition to and create opportunities for understanding disability justice, not just disability rights.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability. The studies came just as the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2022

This year, 57 such experts identified social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends influencing the higher ed sector. An economic trend that the research identifies as significant is the growth of the digital economy.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

How might anyone justify the point of view that having stronger and better human relationships, where community members of all races and backgrounds can participate and thrive, is counterproductive? Now more than ever, schools must embrace the human-centric opportunities of SEL and reject false and frenzied challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? We definitely have those students who are baristas one year out, but they’re also writing a novel on the side,” said Kathryn Foster, president of the University of Maine at Farmington, which also focuses on the liberal arts. It appears true that the very definition of “liberal arts” is a problem.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Think of AI products as good rough drafts — to reach the level of quality we want for our classrooms, these drafts need your human touch to fine-tune them. This is the third of our AI classroom assistants and is definitely one to try out. They do not completely do the work for you. Let’s go. Guided notes? A classroom icebreaker?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. We definitely wanted to get out of the colleges’ way,” Ton-Quinlivan said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. But people are messy. “My

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

This broader definition does not water down the concept of trauma; it makes it universal. Defining Trauma and Trauma-Informed Education “One of the really hard things in trauma-informed education and trauma in general is that there’s no agreed-upon definition for either of those things,” Venet explains.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The period from prenatal to age 3 is a uniquely consequential window of human development during which the fundamental architecture of the brain is “wired.” And so I definitely agree that inertia is part of the equation here. So I definitely think we need to invert our policy. No question.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The increase may be one factor leaving a high percentage of college students “rent-burdened,” defined as paying more than 30 percent of household income toward rent. Additional federal programs to fund these types of housing developments also could help.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

She was “a little hesitant, definitely,” to come back. “I She was “a little hesitant, definitely,” to come back, said Ridgeway. “I Zac Mckinster, 28, a Navy veteran and new father, is double-majoring in finance and quantitative economics at Portland State. I don’t want to waste any more money.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

In rural places in particular, educators say, higher education still conjures visions of a four-year campus that pumps out humanities degrees rather than a community or technical college from which graduates can go straight into high-paying positions. My parents definitely want me to go for those two free years,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

We definitely want Newark students to feel like this is a place where they can come and succeed,” said Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, which is playing a key role in the local drive to boost the share of city residents who hold college degrees and other post-secondary credentials from 12.2 percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Leave this field empty if you're human: Kailei Whitaker, 12, said she likes learning from a computer more than learning from a teacher because she can focus better. At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

The traditional definition of literacy only includes reading and writing. But as our economy and society become ever more grounded in technology, that definition must change. This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. ” The briefest possible definition of that term is “the quantification of prejudice.” 81, and 85, respectively.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Depending on the values of the community and definitions of words like these, playful learning spaces may look and feel quite different from one another.). If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited. Start small and develop a flexible prototype.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. Now I am part of a crime in their definition.” However, most platform operators and the state did not aim to scam.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. In 2020, it accepted no new students at all, and its future remained uncertain.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 10, 2024

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. I could definitely give a U.S.-focused Loyle in Journal of Peace Research on the economic benefits of post-conflict justice.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

And that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. With a few notable exceptions, they do not train skills that students need to gain economic independence. And a university degree is definitely good debt—not only for the individual, but also for society. There is good debt, and there is bad debt.

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Strange Maps

JULY 2, 2024

We humans are terrible at quickly analyzing complex datasets. A famous early example of Chernoff-faced cartography, establishing correspondences between race and three socio-economic factors in early-1970s Los Angeles. There is one notable exception: We have the innate ability to immediately “read” a face. Credit : pburka, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

Bruce Elliott, Society of Human Resource Management. And in spite of all the activity, American business remains more stingy with its education benefits than it was before the economic downturn, and is largely making up lost ground. “The most important thing is that they go out and get the degree, and that we make it affordable.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Looking around the small island during an economic depression amongst its beautiful palm trees, they knew that the future they envisioned would not be possible there. Leave this field empty if you're human: I am one of the lucky ones who happened to get into a great school, but what about those who aren’t so lucky? Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It definitely held me back.”. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. “Driving two hours each day plus work – it takes a lot of time away from school,” said Ms. Missing one means waiting a full year.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Like ethnographic data, user data effectively consists of empirical data about people arising from time spent observing their behaviors and interactions (even if the “observer” is not necessarily human). User data became an ethnographic source in my research that illuminated much of my understanding of AI-human relationality.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Like many cities across America, Lowell is struggling to find its economic footing as millions of blue-collar jobs in manufacturing, construction and transportation disappear , subject to offshoring and automation. It’s definitely difficult at home sometimes. Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography.

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