Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High in the Zeravshan Valley of Tajikistan, the Soii Havzak rock-shelter has provided researchers with an invaluable glimpse into early human migration routes and daily life in Central Asia. Discovered 1 only recently, this rock-shelter sits 40 meters above a tributary of the Zeravshan River, approximately 10 kilometers north of Panjakent.

Humanities 93

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing the internet. It’s important for us in education research to look at that history,” Skinner said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

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. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

“The archaeological record here was practically a blank page,” noted Seyyed Milad Hashemi of Tarbiat Modares University, the project’s lead researcher. Covering an area of nearly 900 square kilometers, researchers identified eight Paleolithic landscapes, most clustered on ancient alluvial fans and old river terraces.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

For much of history, the rise of inequality has been treated like gravity: inevitable, natural, and inescapable. From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

Humanities 58

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

Over time, I pieced together the idea that my students would benefit most from a teaching model that emphasized shared readings of challenging works of literature; memorization of poetry; explicit grammar instruction; contextual knowledge, including history; and teacher direction — not time practicing skills. That shouldn’t be surprising.

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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. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. Only one in five students is reading at grade level. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

To sixth graders, he teaches ancient world history; to seventh graders, geography and Kansas history; to eighth graders, US history from early settlement through World War I. This is US history happening right now! There are 60 kids in the junior high, and I teach every one of them, watching them mature, he says.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Researchers analyzing 22 ancient feline remains from 14 sites across China have reshaped the timeline of cat domestication in the region. Leopard cats, roughly the size of modern house cats, are adaptable predators with a long history of interaction with human societies. A Tang Dynasty mural from A.D. Chinese Archaeology.) 1 Han, Y.,

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. While schools often increase ELA instruction to improve literacy rates, research suggests that allocating more time to social studies is actually more effective.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

The problem is combining the two at once, according to “ Specifying Hybrid Models of Teachers’ Work During COVID-19 ,” published online in the peer-reviewed journal, Educational Researcher, in January 2022. She selected 75 teachers from nine states to represent the range of demographics, geographies and union strength within the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics. appeared first on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research increasingly shows that integrating knowledge-rich instruction across subjects is essential for improving literacy, critical thinking, and overall student success. This time allocation persists despite research showing that knowledge-rich instruction in these subjects significantly boosts literacy development.

Social Studies 52

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

While previous studies have focused on when these encounters occurred, recent research has turned its attention to where these interspecies interactions took place. This research has pinpointed the Zagros Mountains, a significant mountain range on the Persian Plateau, as a key region where these two human species overlapped.

Humanities 98

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University followed students using the same social studies curriculum as the one used in Waterford in 20 high-poverty schools in Michigan. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Using a Mnemonic Device The map we used came from Howson History, and it featured a helpful mnemonic device for remembering the colonial regions. It was simple but effective, reinforcing both geography and historical knowledge. I scrapped the Iron Chef and Sketch and Tell, deciding to focus solely on the map and some Wordwall practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city. Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

teachers focus on, but do so using a common curriculum that ensures all students – regardless of class, race or geography – get exposure to a similarly broad set of ideas and facts. The researchers at Johns Hopkins have helped Baltimore City teachers ensure students read accurate, appropriately challenging material. schools assess. “If

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? Many thanks. back in 1987. A few thoughts: 1.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2021

Landscapes of Fear: Landscapes of fear have become a central focus in the spatialities research within urban anthropology, producing considerable debate about the nature of the fear and how it is produced. Studies of migration and translocality emphasize the role of diaspora communities within the new geography of globalization.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. Related: PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

But our research team, comprised of HMoob-American college students and education researchers, uses the spelling “HMoob” to challenge the colonial history of this ethnic group that originated in southern China. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It says that climate change and sustainability must become embedded across the curriculum for all children up to age 18, and not just be restricted to science and geography. The lead signatory is someone very well known to the geography community: Nicola Walshe. She said: History and English have a role, as do all other humanities.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. It’s so important that Esther spoke up about this.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Research shows that teachers coming from elementary ed programs feel the least competent in teaching social studies, compared to math, English language arts and even the sciences.” When I ask them to take part in inquiry, research or exploration, they don’t know how to do that.”. Serriere said C3 is being used across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. My research examines how humans and javelinas co-shape their relationships and shared environments across diverse Texas landscapes.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. As you'd imagine, we are preparing to submit evidence and support the consultation for the new curriculum review to discuss what we hope to see in a future curriculum with respect to the geography entitlement and the nature of what is studied. (PDF

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This analysis helped students build context and draw connections between geography and colonization strategies. The Great American Race followed that up by challenging their research and teamwork skills, while still keeping the fun element of discovery and competition. What geographic trait did these colonies have in common?

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