Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That’s when British colonizers switched their trade focus from gold to human beings, and the trade of enslaved people intensified in West Africa and across the Atlantic. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges. Her research shows that people knew what they were doing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The office would also coordinate with other federal agencies, such as the departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, and be an active member of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Related: Long before the coronavirus pandemic, student parents struggled with hunger, homelessness.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That wasn’t the issue, says Ryan Page, director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding. The problem was families couldn’t see availability. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. The future will leave room for human teachers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

These included abnormalities in the semicircular canals, which govern balance and sense of head position, and a reduction in the size of the cochlea, which is involved in hearing. This finding ensures that the story of human evolution includes us all.” 1 Conde-Valverde, M., Quirós-Sánchez, A., Diez-Valero, J.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level. In Zoom class, youre just a little blot on the screen.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

However, no indications of elaborate governance or extensive trade networks typical of Mesopotamian city-states have been found, indicating that these communities were still rooted in pastoralism while transitioning to sedentary life. 1 Charloux, G., Depreux, B., Guadagnini, K., Guermont, F., Bec Drelon, N., Poulmarc’h, M., Albukaai, D.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government and consequent prosperity.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

Agency, freewill, and vice Political corruption Epistemic Injustice Bad laws and governance The phenomenology of hate Thucydides on the origin of stasis and polemos Hubris and Apotheosis The psychology of evil Greek tragedy and vice (e.g., God, humans, and the limits of piety and reason (e.g.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

This includes business training, but also compliance (such as licensing ratios for every age group), participation in state and federal government programs (such as the federal food program and the state subsidy program ), employee engagement and family engagement.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

Rather, he saw mechanical forms of solidarity as already containing all of the elements of organic solidarity, like an embryo that grows into a human being. “ Solidarity, in this period, became both a subject of sociological study and a tool for promoting a less coercive form of colonial governance.”

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Living Geography

JANUARY 11, 2025

It would take someone from the poorest 50% of humanity three years to create the same amount of pollution. Governments need to stop pandering to the richest polluters and instead make them pay their fair share for the havoc theyre wreaking on our planet. tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis by Oxfam GB.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 21, 2024

The Unique Morphology of the Human Skull Base The human species, Homo sapiens , stands apart in the evolutionary tapestry, distinguished by a myriad of anatomical features, including the distinctive shape of the skull base. 1 Funato, N., Heliövaara, A., & Boeckx, C.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Witnesses instead work to spread what they refer to as the truth to all humans.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

For 1000 years after Galen’s death almost no original anatomical inquiries were performed, mainly because the Church was against the dissection of human bodies. They are in this is not so different from the artistic representations of the body produced by Renaissance artists and based on their own first hand assessment of human anatomy.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. But it is not only humans who are harmed in these conflicts.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

On a visit to feline-friendly Turkey, an anthropologist considers what long-standing practices of caring for cats reveal about human societies. Kedi (Turkish for “cat”) also charts the ways humans care for felines, from making them snacks to bringing them to the vet.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers. Primarily, for instance, it stresses that humans should be placed “firmly at the center” of AI-enabled edtech.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

As I consider what is causing teachers to be disengaged, I’m reminded of Daniel Pink’s Drive in which he explores human motivation. Pink identified three essential elements that drive human motivation: Autonomy. It is the freedom and independence to make decisions and govern oneself.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. Reengaging the role of government. With shifts in policy and administrations, the field is poised to better partner with government at the federal, state, and local level. Lessons learned include: Network weaving activities are essential.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. Policy always lags innovation, but when it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media, for example. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. She received her Ph.D.

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Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 29, 2024

THE VALUE OF A HUMAN LIFE, EVEN IF IT IS NOT YOURS To you and me, life is everything. In the time of pandemic, how does the government cost-effectively allocate its financial resources? In the time of pandemic, how does the government cost-effectively allocate its financial resources? For one more day? Or for a lifetime?

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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.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The SSDS gathers information about school system capabilities and infrastructure for leveraging education data in six domains: governance, leadership and vision, technology and infrastructure landscape, implementation fidelity, procurement and impact on educational environment.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

In her book Humanly Possible , Sarah Bakewell writes about being human as culture, morality, science, optimism, and more. Bakewell opens with a musing on the Roman playwright Terence’s line about humans. “I In Bakewell’s way of thinking, this double meaning to both entertain and provoke is so very human.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis. For younger kids, in particular, missing out on play with peers could take a toll.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 A February 2024 report about a research-and-development program inside the Department of Education makes this truth crystal clear. The failure rate was 74 percent. Source: IES , February 2024. Health research receives nearly $50 billion.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. Systemwide changes tend to provoke a natural human reaction of resistance. Stakeholders question, “What’s in it for me?”

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Human hygiene is taken as an example. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. Being equipped as citizens goes beyond our ability to name the three branches of government or the history of political parties.

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