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.

Anthropology 109

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 2015

Did it allow students to use digital learning tools to enhance their learning beyond traditional analog affordances? Our graduates need to be digitally fluent so that they can effectively navigate our technology-suffused information, economic, and learning landscapes. ]. Did it really? [ If not, why not?

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

Economics 121

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Or are they exposed to information via social media that is leading to a greater sense of anxiety and depression? Subscribe today! Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education). This is how we will be able to better foster prosperity and facilitate our nation’s promise of economic mobility.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Robert Henry Codrington's The Melanesians (1891) and Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen's The native tribes of central Australia (1899) exemplify this new, theoretically informed style of extended firsthand observation. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

His father, Peter, an information technology expert, had been a full-time employee with benefits at the time of Keller’s surgery. Believe it or not, we can apply what we know about foundational brain development in children to inform a new system of worker protection, simultaneously aiding children and their parents.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Source: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s “Stay Informed” report, Oct. It’s not that more students are enrolling in traditional professional or doctorate programs. It could continue for years and affect a whole generation.”. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

These include health care, cybersecurity, information technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement and utilities. Yet the number of community college students in communications technology and support programs is down by 16 percent and in information technology by 4 percent, according to the Clearinghouse.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. School leaders are increasingly turning to organizations like the World Economic Forum and analyzing data on the most in-demand skills for the next five years. How is AI changing teaching and learning strategies?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Through regular exchanges of humorous insults with fellow classmates on various topics — such as who was the least intelligent or most economically disadvantaged — I developed a well-curated arsenal of diss material. I felt empowered like never before, having the ability to make more accurate interpretations and informed decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2020

The coronavirus makes this even more urgent because students are more vulnerable economically than ever before. As a student in my 30s with over a decade of professional experience, I am not a “traditional” student. But I also know my economic reality is unstable.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

1:1 computing initiatives (and concurrent Internet bandwidth upgrades) that give students powerful digital learning devices and access to the world’s information, individuals, and organizations. Online communities of interest that supplement and augment more-traditional learning communities that are limited by geography and time.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Brian Lusk, the district’s chief of strategic initiatives, said school leaders wanted to ensure that all students were prepared to make informed decisions about their paths in high school and beyond. And there’s more information about alternative pathways, including the military, apprenticeships and technical school. “We

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Digital Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

The pandemic has intensified the need to leverage digital tools, such as micro-credentials, to promote local economic growth. I know for me and traditional classroom settings, when you talk about a semester, that’s a long time. I think that part of it is great and new.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A small division that has served as a conduit for sharing information and best practices among the mastery-based schools is now down to a two-person staff, as department resources have shifted to more publicized efforts like a $23 million-dollar anti-bias training program for teachers. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Some I spoke with are rethinking the traditional four-year college route altogether, already a path that less than half of high school graduates opt for. Falling endowments, demographic changes and rampant job losses portend a scary time for traditional models of higher education – and a reckoning may come sooner rather than later.

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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. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. And Daniel A.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. It’s important to inform hard-to-reach and undercounted groups and communities that the 2020 Census process can be quick, easy, and safe.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

MedCerts, which offers short-term training in industries like health care and information technology, is a large workforce training provider enrolling thousands of students annually. Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Related: The Fafsa fiasco could roll back years of progress it must be fixed immediately Meanwhile, the traditional college decision date looms: May 1. Four years ago, hundreds of colleges eased their enrollment-commitment deadlines in response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread economic and social upheaval.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape. It’s too early to tell the overall impacts of this plan’s implementation.

Cultures 79

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?” Thinking Strategically About Early Ed How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?

Education 103

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Trish Torizzo, chief information officer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. The staff at Resilient Coders sees this racial and economic inequality up close. “If Houghton Mifflin Harcourt wasn’t alone in that practice.

Economics 112

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Our organization has a unique opportunity to engage non-traditional learners in acquiring the digital skills they need.”. These skills include the ability to navigate, interpret information, generate information, and communicate online and through mobile devices. Information Literacies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. She worked 40 hours a week on top of school and ended up changing her major, which was originally business management economics. “I The grade itself has turned into the target.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

We implement a forecasting and reporting tool that aggregates data to inform solutions,” says McGrath. EdSurge: How do higher education institutions balance the need for tuition increases with the imperative to remain accessible to students from diverse economic backgrounds?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

All staff — not just academic advisors, counselors and coaches — should have training in basic trauma-informed communication and in triaging potentially dangerous situations. Given the breadth and severity of the issues at play, institutions must double down on their mental health efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“The services are out there, but a lot of times, parents of color just don’t have the information and resources they need to fight for them,” said Daisy Brown, Tyrone’s mother. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Here’s why they’re not.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Thirty years after the World Wide Web provided a gateway for the world to access information, connect, and learn, we are still facing a digital divide that has contributed to a continually expanding digital learning gap. Why hasn’t innovation in teaching and learning cascaded to underserved populations?

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