Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2013

I am a firm believer in accountability measures that are backed by research, but less so in those that line the pockets of special interest groups. The NJ Spotlight piece points this out with a little history lesson in NCLB: "NCLB was a dismal failure in raising academic performance or narrowing gaps in opportunity and outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model.

Psychology 114

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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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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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the scale of ochre extraction and the evident skill involved at Lion Cavern marks this site as a unique focal point in the history of human creativity and ritual. By examining how ochre was mined, refined, and utilized, researchers have unveiled the extent of early human social networks, technical skills, and cultural beliefs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

What we cherish often has nothing to do with the biology or Bronze Age history we learned in the classroom. That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and his colleagues brought the tools of modern applied economics to answer the question of a teacher’s worth outside of the classroom.

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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. There aren’t enough hours in the day. Could ChatGPT relieve teachers of some of the burden of grading papers?

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The less-selective schools that graduate high shares of low-income students help them succeed not only by reducing financial barriers, but also by providing an array of academic support through learning communities, peer support and undergraduate research experiences.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. management policies that limit their access.

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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.

Economics 98

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This Research Group will bring together scholars interested in exploring political economys evolving body of knowledge and practices from the early-modern period through the present. Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop here. View all research group workshop descriptions on the 2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting website.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. Yet in our relentless pursuit of data and efficiency, we have systematically devalued them.

Humanities 64

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. EduProtocol Tie-In: This follows the Thin Slides method but adds a deeper research component with the Thick Slide approach. Big Idea: What lasting impact did this have on history?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. That’s true for college students too.

Humanities 143

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future.

Social Justice 104

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. We at EdSurge Research are shining a light on Asian American educators to uplift their unique stories and experiences.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

Economics 145

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In sports, economic growth can be measured by attendance figures. After all, any sports franchise needs to draw fans to its games to make money and thus compete within its own league. For this post, I want to look at attendance figures from baseball during the 1880s compared to the growth of some of the cities where these teams played.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

She was the only woman and person of color to graduate from her University of Virginia Medical School class of 1967, and most notably, went on to become the director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health, a position she retired from in 2011. Pinn, Senior Scientist Emerita NIH.

History 74

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.) In math, the U.S.

Economics 145

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. According to historian Benjamin T. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

Education 142

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Well-researched, brilliantly analyzed, and compellingly told, Savings and Trust brings to life the dramatic expansion of Americas racial wealth gap with a focus on Black resourcefulness and trust and white betrayal and plunder during Reconstruction. ASL interpretation provided.

American History 96

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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.

Archaeology 98

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools are linchpins of a community’s overall physical landscape and of what researcher Eric Klinenberg defines as social infrastructure: the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact. Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives.

Economics 144

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

When we abruptly transitioned online in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought the classes I teach at my flagship research university would resume in person in a matter of weeks — and for sure by the fall semester. I was naïve. I got to wondering, were such expenses a shared reality?

Teaching 141

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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

Economics 52

Economics K-12 Civics History 52

Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

While most programs are still in pilot stages, preliminary research shows that micro-credentials can—and in some cases, do—lead to job promotions, higher wages, and increased self-confidence for rural learners. strengthening regionally specific industry-educator partnerships. Read the complete TCSG case study here.

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