Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A new study published in Scientific Reports 1 takes another look at human remains from Maszycka Cave in Poland, and the findings reignite a long-standing debate. Human induced modifications on cranial and postcranial remains. Cut Marks and Cracked Bones: The Case for Cannibalism Maszycka Cave is not new to the anthropological world.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

Credit: University of Barcelona The study, led by Hamza Benattia and his team, presents the first definitive evidence of a continuous settlement in the northwestern Maghreb from at least 2200 BCE to 600 BCE. The earliest phase, dating between 2200–2000 BCE , provides evidence of human activity at the cusp of the Bronze Age transition.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Of course, you have, as this is just a part of human nature. They most definitely are. " Comfort is the enemy of progress." - Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman Have you ever been complacent when it comes to undertaking or performing a task? In our personal lives, complacency can result if we are happy or content with where we are.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new study 1 challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Horseback riding can indeed leave subtle marks on the human body. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The discovery of a sophisticated stone tool tradition in southern China is now forcing a major reassessment of that assumption. The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” Instead, we need to develop a skill set that is adaptable enough and flexible enough to travel from the bumpy, cobblestone streets of traditional education to the choppy waters of learning in the cloud.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

My adaptation of Staker and Horn’s (2012) often cited definition is rooted in constructivist principles emphasizing the student’s role as an active participant in the learning process. Most of the schools and districts I work with are focusing on the rotation models because they work well in a traditional school setting.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 8, 2025

Their findings point to a complex blend of cultural traditions, physical trauma, and ritual significance, raising new questions about Manteño funerary practices and the role of sacrifice in pre-Columbian Ecuador. Valdivia and the Coastal Tradition of Ecuador." Credit: Kathryn Killacky in Juengst et al. History of the New World."

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Highlights of Our Conversation In our conversation, Avery highlights two things that AI can do very quickly that are beyond our capacity as humans. AI can analyze unlimited amounts of student writing or data and generate rapid responses consistently, something that would be exhausting, if not impossible, for any human.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students to be able to analyze data, create charts and spreadsheets and reason mathematically – skills that high school math courses often skip or rush through. “We I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

However, the vast majority of the examples that they use in the book pertain to students remembering something that they read earlier, answering exam questions, taking notes, engaging in mini-quizzes, regurgitating back what they heard from a teacher, and similar, extraordinarily traditional educational practices.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. A key reason that attacks on the value of college have resonated with so many people, the panelists noted, is that many parents of traditional-college-aged students had failed attempts with higher ed themselves.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 8, 2024

This diminutive species, with a brain about one-third the size of modern humans, was unlike any other hominin previously discovered. Instead of publishing their results in a traditional peer-reviewed journal, Berger and his team opted to release their findings through a series of unreviewed preprints on bioRxiv. 1 Berger, L.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In its final metamorphosis, influenced by the theories of orientalists, the concept of world view merged with the concept of “Great” and “Little” traditions, which contains a more balanced evolutionary view of the loss of purity. Attitude systems at the level of any world view (mineral, animal, vegetal, human, para-natural) 6.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

became the lead plaintiff in a California lawsuit alleging that IQ tests discriminated against Black students and were too often used to label them “educable mentally retarded” and remove them from traditional classes. There are some kids who don’t get services under that model who definitely deserve and need support.” It does not.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The digital credential program is helping promote equity and social justice, reaching communities beyond the traditional educational pathway.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates. Yet at a time when universities nationwide are aggressively recruiting students like Souza, who face a myriad of obstacles traditional-aged students don’t, the kind of help she’s gotten on this campus is more of an exception than the rule.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2018

Their “system” is human capital – teachers and students – which yields challenges that require a careful and measured approach. In traditional K-12 design, practitioners are typically included on the periphery as participants in focus groups, surveys, and test sites.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2022

He is the creator and host of a long-running preschool series of his own, called " Danny Joe’s Tree House ,” and he says he’s trying to make something in the tradition of “Mr. But there were definitely moments where my family needed some backup. Danny LaBrecque has been digging into those questions lately.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. The course was thus designed to be “anti-definition.” That struck me as an interesting moment, when my “anti-definition” approach lost traction.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Department of Health and Human Services. What is definitely tied to brain health, Hillman said, is physical fitness. They need it so bad.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We definitely wanted to get out of the colleges’ way,” Ton-Quinlivan said. While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This definition explains that Judaism is first and foremost a religion. That is particularly alarming because it means the reopening of the case fundamentally challenges the definition of Judaism. They used these laws to justify genocide, and to include as many people as possible in the racial definition of “Jew.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office. Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

We definitely know that we have to make these courses shorter,” agrees Rene Kizilcec, director of the Future of Learning Lab at Cornell University, who’s studied online student behavior closely. When it comes to personalization, CoRise is experimenting with both human intervention and AI bots. It’s too much to type into a chatbot.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. But such a classification conflicts with its own discipline-related definition and state guidance. Especially coming off of two years of catastrophic disruption to kids’ education.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. For English, only half of the online students passed the course and made up the credit compared with two-thirds of the students in the traditional teacher-taught class.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

Yeah, definitely. The reason why guided play is so effective is because it reflects these key characteristics of decades and decades of research of how we know how human brains learn best. So free play is fundamental to anyone’s life, right? There seems to be a shift.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” That’s definitely a barrier.” and between the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Consumers are definitely ready for something different.”. But advocates are finding work-arounds — that college sidestepped its humanities faculty’s objections by instead proposing a three-year degree in “liberal studies” from scratch, for instance — and allies. It’s “definitely a lot more challenging,” said Zanca, at Wentworth.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Broadening the Definition of and Measurement of Impact: Like most BIPOC solution providers, BIPOC solution providers design products and programs to meet traditional standards and metrics that demonstrate solution impact. Their understanding of excluded students' authentic experiences drives meaningful, resonating change.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. Prompt generate a definition for NFT. In Andrew Miller’s case, he sought to collaborate with his wife, artist Robyn Field in this oscillation between human and machine, story and art.

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