Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. government boarding schools. government boarding schools. “If

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government. Next, her father called.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. 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.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. This is not a new concept in any sense. This was one of my main focus areas as a principal.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts. government back in the past,” she said. “We Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Political parties have a long and often convoluted history in American politics. This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. More precisely, republican government does not work well without being buttressed by political parties.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a memo sent to tribes in the region in March, government administrators expressed concern but said they were unable to deny the permit request. A postcard from early to mid-20th century shows Hopi dancers in traditional regalia in front of Hopi House, a building in honor of Hopi connections to the Grand Canyon.

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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.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. This year I have been reading a variety of new titles for my Intro to Ethnic Studies course.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. When Azuela released his novel, Mexican literature was changed as we know it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

King understood that our rights are not given to us by the government, but are ours by the grace of God,” the governor said. Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach? Source: Alamy.In

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. We don't have a lot of state statutes that govern how we do pre-K, Hume said. It includes $26.25

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity. Like, playing double ball — that’s a traditional game. Our country has a long history of racial oppression, and education has too often been a weapon against the oppressed.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.” It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. Onward to the next lesson!

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

With limited funding, many communities deploy home visiting programs for specific populations, such as low-income families, single-parent households, recent immigrants and refugee families, families experiencing homelessness and those with a history of substance abuse. Many home visiting programs have been around for decades.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But taking money from Meta to build campus-specific metaverses is just the latest in higher education’s grand tradition of letting others profit off its inventions. Universities have a long history of innovating and then giving away the value they create. What might an “open metaverse” (sometimes referred to as Web3 ) be like?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Most of these early college schools are now funded by local and state taxpayers, just as traditional high schools are, along with donations from other foundations. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? If we treat those outcomes as fixed, unless these schools diversify, we won’t have diverse leadership in government, business and academia.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Peru’s northern coast regularly suffers droughts followed by torrential rains, some so severe the Peruvian government has declared states of emergency multiple times over the past few years. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the academic perspective, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the United States defines the study of public administration as "A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Southeast Asia’s Ancient Cultural Heritage Beyond East Timor and Sulawesi, Australia holds some of the oldest continuous cultural heritage sites globally, reflecting its Indigenous populations' long history. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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