Sapiens

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Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. This contrasts with local statistics that document high rates of violence against women in the broader region. An estimated “1.8

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. But what about the materials that dont make the cut?

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. See detailed graphs below. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

State officials at the highest levels have been aware of these problems for years and have repeatedly failed to fix them, according to internal documents. Tennessee’s VR office has long struggled to serve its clients effectively, federal documents show. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” The more we disclose the use of AI and the purpose, the more we uplift everybody in the conversation,” Dirkin says. “The

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where Census data show the median household income is $36,802, and the poverty rate is 19 percent, according to Jochai Ben-Avie, chief executive of the nonprofit Connect Humanity.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mental health clinicians and researchers have begun to notice and document what they call climate anxiety or eco-anxiety , which is defined as chronic stress caused by concern over the effects of climate change. These mental health challenges are not pathological, but considered to be normal human responses to a rapidly changing world.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The impacts of heat on students’ health and learning is well-documented; studies have found that without air conditioning, every 1 degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature during a school year reduces the year’s learning by 1 percent. Government Accountability Office.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 18, 2024

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. Its holistic approach and emphasis on reflexivity have contributed significantly to our understanding of the human experience.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. Because child care is not primarily funded by the federal government, the quality and cost vary by state.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. government as well.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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MARCH 13, 2020

More than half of university trustees in a survey conducted by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges said they were concerned about the financial futures of their institutions. The survey was released in late January — before the market went into its slide. million to $7.5 million.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. Gale and children working at a raised garden bed.

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AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Photo Credit: Rafael Bittencourt.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

As I dug into the rules governing informed consent in educational research, I was surprised to learn that parental consent often isn’t required by law. Video and audio recordings and photographs, often used to document what is going on in a classroom during a study, require parental consent.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. My goal, for this blog post is twofold. Let’s get started.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 10, 2023

And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. However, the human resources function has historically lagged behind other business areas in adopting data-driven approaches. Department of Labor reported a near-record 9.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. MEDICAL STUDY AND TREATMENTS Sickle cell anemia was first documented in medical literature in 1910. Government and communities have a responsibility to make living with sickle cell bearable—even convenient.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

universities, has been put on hold because of resistance from governments and institutions, the OECD’s director for education and skills said. Leave this field empty if you're human: What is known publicly about what and whether college students learn is mixed. But that project, which was to have included U.S. Weekly Update.

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MARCH 27, 2024

In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P., Embedded in too many schools’ practice and policy, to this day, is the idea that an intelligence test score can somehow measure human potential. In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset. It does not.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. The federal government foots only a small part of the bill, leaving localities and states to pay for the rest. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Take Susan Blum’s work on plagiarism, which documents the disconnection between old-school academic standards and today’s students. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” Further, varied government and regulatory agencies have pressed for widespread AI literacy training.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Bryanna Lyons, a first-year student majoring in human development and family studies, is one of them. Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so colleges and the government count six years as “success”. Last year, 136 entering students signed up, from among CCRI’s enrollment of nearly 12,000 , LaPointe said.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Disassembled cubicles and crates of documents are piled in the corners of the 36,000-square-foot space, and light shines from the doors of the few lonely offices still occupied. I will be very honest: It took a while for the campuses to catch up that we weren’t having separate governance,” Sciple said. “It

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.” The creators of the program hope other states will replicate it.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Just under 60 percent of the students are English language learners, and just over 60 percent have been deemed socioeconomically disadvantaged, though that’s an undercount according to the school’s staff who say many of their families are also undocumented or under-documented. The answer that night was no, but the question hung in the air.

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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