ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Ancient Artistry of Ochre Mining in Eswatini The Lion Cavern at Ngwenya, Eswatini, holds groundbreaking evidence 1 of humanity's earliest intensive ochre mining practices, dating back 48,000 years. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating methods confirmed its use as the world’s oldest ochre mine.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

The narrative of human technological advancement has long positioned metallurgy as a hallmark of settled agricultural societies. This suggests the existence of extensive exchange networks during this period, highlighting a level of socio-economic complexity not typically attributed to hunter-gatherer groups.​

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

This discovery does more than just fill a gap—it forces a reassessment of Mediterranean history itself. The earliest phase, dating between 2200–2000 BCE , provides evidence of human activity at the cusp of the Bronze Age transition. But the site’s legacy is profound. 1 Benattia, H., Onrubia-Pintado, J., Benerradi, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

mi) of the Rail Baltica route, now under construction – underlining the economic benefits that will be realised when the connection goes live, from 2030. Total measurable socio-economic benefits have been estimated at €16.2 But their railway network is still stuck in Soviet times.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We rewarded students for getting the right answers, for competing rather than collaborating, for mastering subjects rather than navigating human relationships. In an AI-driven future, our greatest strength will not be IQ or EQ but RQ Relational Intelligence the capacity to connect, understand and thrive through human relationships.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. History Examples of student learning goals for history learners include: Analyze the causes and effects of significant historical events. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Learn to write comprehensive history essays.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. By applying the Gini coefficient—a widely used metric for measuring inequality—to house sizes, the study created a cross-cultural snapshot of economic disparity over 10,000 years. link] Kohler, T.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 30, 2025

Sheep and the Rise of Human Societies For over 11,000 years, sheep have been central to human survival, providing food, milk, wool, and economic stability to societies from the Near East to the edges of Europe and beyond. But how did this partnership begin? Sheep in arid landscape, southeastern Morocco. Photo by J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. Consequently, students don’t have to spend hours memorizing formulas and moments in history.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

While economic aspects of these interactions are well-documented, the social and cultural dimensions remain less understood. The Dahwa cymbals not only enrich our comprehension of Bronze Age music but also illuminate the broader tapestry of human interaction and shared expression.​ S., & Douglas, K.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. Separation of Disciplines.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade. Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. This story also appeared in American Public Media.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Early research is finding that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89 percent of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. While not everyone in her economically and ethnically diverse classes masters all the math, “what I know for sure is that my kids never give up on my class.”. You’re shot down. You got it wrong. classrooms.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

This class will help students understand the complexities and nuances of a pivotal time in American history. Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship. Instructors: Eric C. MAHG is both!

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. According to historian Benjamin T.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn. The second act came with seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013. School hiring has taken place in three acts, Roza says.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 24, 2024

Introduction: A Landmark Discovery in Qaleh Kurd Cave In a momentous archaeological breakthrough, French and Iranian researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of early human habitation in Iran's Central Plateau, pushing back the known timeline of human settlement in the region by an astonishing 300,000 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Now, based on the latest science and human behavior, I predict that on-campus classes will not be safe until late 2022. At the same time, ensuring that college students are getting the best learning experiences possible is urgent, to prevent a steep drop in graduation rates as the country grapples with economic crisis.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. History: H.5.USH.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has created a moment in history in which educators and administrators can shift the narrative and reality for an entire community. There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. How would you respond to that?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

From that dividing line, the American Dream guarantees safety, education, economic stability and outright survival for many Mexican and Central American people. As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? Why should we bother to learn from a small country of just 5.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. But that’s not enough, he told me in an interview: “You need to also focus on what we humans can do that machines cannot do.”

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

This years series will explore ideas and examples of transformational and adaptive leadership through history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture. We also seek to represent an inclusive array of individuals and leadership scenarios in ancient societies, especially in terms of gender, social status, economic class, and occupation.

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