Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories. These scholars are using their research on the precolonial past to sow sustainable futures—like the worlds inhabited by Abena and Akaina.

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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. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

Tutoring 128

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 8, 2025

According to a new synthesis of archaeological, historical, and economic data published in the Journal of Economic Literature 1 , that change wasn’t just about economics. At the same time, the cultural embrace of hierarchy and individualism began to replace long-held norms of communal sharing and economic leveling.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Researchers have been studying ways to diversify the ranks of gifted-and-talented programs. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms.

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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. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. By contrast, fewer than a quarter of the students in the top 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. More than 40 percent are Hispanic.

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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

That has not deterred a trio of researchers from trying to quantify that influence. Kraft and two other researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia turned to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a periodic survey of 20,000 teens from 1994 into adulthood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

College-educated adults hold the key to reshaping how to support Black and Latinx students getting to and through the college process so that they can unlock their full potential and achieve the “holy grail” of economic mobility. Every adult needs to adopt a mentoring mindset.

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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. Credit: T. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In fourth grade reading, for example, 47 percent of economically disadvantaged students met at least basic reading proficiency by NAEP standards, while that percentage was 74 percent for students who were not considered economically disadvantaged.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

That night in Sala Patagn stuck with me as my dissertation research took shape. The national government also incentivized European settlement on these lands, with the goal of economically and ethnically incorporating these territories into the new Argentine nation-state.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers primarily applied this system to Eurasia and Africa, but other evolutionary frameworks have been applied not only to those regions but also to the Americas.) This approach to archaeological research places value on the continuous cultural and social development of humans. Instead, we advocate for “deep history.”

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TeachThought

MAY 15, 2024

From social sciences to natural sciences, statistics permeates every facet of inquiry, offering invaluable contributions to fields as diverse as economics, public health, environmental science, and beyond. At the heart of statistics’ resurgence lies the proliferation of data in the digital era.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. It encourages deeper cognitive processes and critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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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. Researchers fed these same student essays – ungraded – into ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT to score them cold.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

The research, published in Antiquity 1 , challenges long-held assumptions that this part of Africa was a historical void waiting to be "awakened" by foreign traders. “Kach Kouch decisively challenges the notion that the north-western Maghreb was essentially terra nullius prior to Phoenician arrival,” the researchers write.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

Among the architectural remnants and everyday artifacts, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of early copper use and production.​ 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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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson. We should hire more provenance researchers. militarys invasion of Iraq?

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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. Where there still is forced change turmoil, economic instability, and mistrust run rampant. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This sobering anecdote comes from a research project led by Kelly Slay, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, who has been conducting in-depth interviews with admissions officers in 2022 to understand how the elimination of SAT and ACT testing requirements has been playing out inside colleges and universities.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. where I teach.

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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. ” Measuring Inequality in Mudbrick and Stone The researchers turned to one of the most consistent archaeological indicators of wealth: house size. Over time, these advantages accumulated, and so did inequality.

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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. Related Research Sapolsky, R.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. This further underscores their ceremonial importance rather than economic utility. ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R. Antiquity , 97(392), 784-799. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.784

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The researchers from the University of Missouri, University of Tübingen, and other institutions found that ochre mining at Lion Cavern involved significant effort, suggesting that ochre was a highly sought resource. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating methods confirmed its use as the world’s oldest ochre mine.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. As LinkedIns chief economic opportunity officer notes, relationship skills are essential in an increasingly relationship economy. But relationships are not a luxury; they are the foundation of our future.

Humanities 84

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Eliminated cost of living adjustments ( COLA ) for all retired educators who gave their all for kids Vetoed a mandatory school recess bill, even though research had shown how important it is to student learning. Pushed forward a few unfunded mandates (Common Core, PARCC) that have taken away precious funds from improving what really matters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These skills matter whether you’re hoping to score an A on a research presentation, perform a soliloquy or secure funding from a venture capitalist. Together they not only engage both sides of the brain, they bring us a fuller experience of the world — to say nothing of the economic opportunities.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

As we discussed all facets of the current educational landscape, buzzwords, fads, opinions, and trends, we came to the realization that there was a need to bring everything together, align all the talk to research, and illustrate through a practitioner lens how to transform teaching, learning, and leadership.

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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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