Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

To uncover this past, a team launched the country’s first archaeological research. Edsiley Encarnação leads researchers through dense growth to the ruins of São Tomé’s oldest sugar mill. Our research at Praia Melão is of global importance, as it explores the origins of plantation slavery in the 16th century.

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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. 1 Vahdati Nasab, H.,

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I have also shown how these representations form part of structures of governing people and bodies by generating “truth claims” and legitimising particular interventions. The concept of biopolitics is used to discuss the political interest which governments and rulers have taken in the health and bodies of the population.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. What else may motivate one to search for treasures, then?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options. For one, 529 plans can be costly for federal and state governments, according to the Pew report.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Like restrictive immigration policies, academic publishing limits movement: Elsevier and Springer charge exorbitant fees for research access, creating knowledge borders that restrict participation. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

National Hispanic Heritage Month (September & October) Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, from September 15 – October 15. Native American Heritage Month (November) Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by learning about the contributions and influences of the Native American people. Get the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. And research by the Education Data Initiative shows Native students borrow more and pay more per month in student loan debt than their white peers.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 21, 2024

Driven by the quest to unravel the genetic underpinnings of human uniqueness, a collaborative team comprising researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), the University of Helsinki, and the University of Barcelona embarked on a quest to decipher the regulatory variant governing skull base morphology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Nationally, schools employ thousands of educators who are not fully certified in their teaching areas, according to data from the Learning Policy Institute, a national education research nonprofit. Related: When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They create relationships between the humans who offer them and the more-than-humans who live in the mountains and are, indeed, the mountains: powerful protectors who preside over deities, spirits, and forces that govern everyday events. By raising prayer flags above the mundane parts of the everyday, a person’s life forces also lift.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. But educators and parents say they’re not giving up on their mission yet.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early 1990s, a Mongolian-Japanese research team used ultrasound to identify over 1,300 locations of Mongol nobles’ graves in the area. However, it is unlikely that the Mongolian government would ever allow actual excavations to prove or disprove these theories.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In too many places, admissions processes send a message that dual-language learning is not for everyone (when research shows that actually it is ). We all know the research is counter to that. These are the students who absolutely need to be in our bilingual programs.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

Capitol, my former students helped their own classes process how white supremacists desecrated the seat of our government, waving the Confederate flag and demanding that millions of Black votes be tossed out. In January, when the country watched a violent mob of white supremacists sack the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. Asking native students to enter into loan agreements with the federal government can be fraught given the U.S. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They were notified that there was a spot for them in a nearby child care center that had recently signed on to a government-led initiative to lower parent fees to just $10 a day. A garden cared for by children and their teachers sits in the playground at the Heritage Park Child Care Centre in British Columbia.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2024

The Blackfoot Confederacy, steadfast guardians of their ancestral territories and water resources, has long navigated the complexities of protecting their cultural heritage amidst encroachments from modern society. A groundbreaking study, published last week in Science Advances 1 , adds a new dimension to this narrative.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a scientist who has researched language diversity for a decade and a half, I recently joined a team to work on a task that even some linguists think is “ ultimately unobtainable ”: helping catalog and count the world’s complex and ever-changing languages. For example, the Central African Republic hosts about 70 languages.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, along California’s Central Coast, would be the first of its kind in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released this map—which depicts the final boundaries of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary—in September 2024.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Last year, she published an extensively researched book about the school choice movement called The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ). Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

government encouraged farmers to produce more milk that it could send to soldiers overseas. Once the war was over, farmers found themselves with more of the stuff than they knew what to do with — and so the government created programs like the Milk Price Support Program to keep demand from falling. During World War II, the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

We know this from over twenty years of research, which you can read about in our newly released Inclusive Learning Research Brief. Billionaire dark money funded the conservative infrastructure that initiated attacks on critical race theory and DEI at all levels of education led by the Heritage Foundation.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. Umoja is also collecting Oral Histories to preserve the legacies of generations of Rusingans who facilitated research around the island. Others are schoolteachers, university students, and community leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. Under Heath Grimes, Russellville High School started an annual Hispanic Heritage Month that has grown into a districtwide celebration. “You know the saying, ‘When you know better, you do better?’” Ezzell told me. That’s what happened.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Research shows that students who are exposed to a supportive, culturally relevant environment perform better in school. “I She points to research showing that connecting students’ culture and language to their school experience helps them do better academically. Interest from families in enrolling their children is high, she said.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

They created the article on the Villagization of Ethiopia , a largely unsuccessful and ultimately detrimental attempt by the Ethiopian government in the 1980s to reform agriculture. Canadian students improved the articles on the Department of Canadian Heritage as well as Open data in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were bombings that people “just had to get used to” as the conflict between the government and ISIS spread. For their research project, each student was asked to choose a civil rights leader to study and then present to the class. They lived in a town about 35 miles from Baghdad. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Crystal FitzSimons, policy analyst at the Food Research & Action Center. That’s the best way to operate school nutrition programs,” said Crystal FitzSimons, a policy analyst for child nutrition at the Food Research & Action Center, a Washington, D.C.-based based advocacy organization lobbying for anti-hunger programs.

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