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APRIL 15, 2025

In the long arc of human history, what makes a settlement persist? Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , the study draws on data from over 47,000 houses spanning nearly 3,000 archaeological sites and 10,000 years of human history. The researchers are careful to avoid deterministic interpretations.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

New research published in Antiquity 1 by geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri and his team reveals a massive, intricate irrigation system in the Eridu region—one that predates the first millennium BCE. This is a rare case where nature has preserved a vital piece of human history.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2025

.” A Long Memory in the Zagros On the northern edges of the Iranian Plateau, where the foothills of the Alborz Mountains give way to fertile valleys and ancient caravan trails, archaeologists and geneticists have uncovered an unexpected thread in the human story. Related Research and Further Reading Lazaridis, I.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Earlier this month, ACF announced the launch of the National Early Care and Education Workforce Center — the ECE Workforce Center, for short — to support research and technical assistance for states, communities, territories and tribal nations. And a fellowship program for policy and research will also incorporate educator voice.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2025

At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. Usually if a grant is terminated, it's because serious misconduct was done, like you misuse research funds or you manipulate data, Kalinec-Craig said.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

Inner-Ear Abnormalities and Symptoms The Neanderthal child, affectionately nicknamed “Tina” by researchers, exhibited a combination of inner-ear abnormalities known only in people with Down’s syndrome. This finding ensures that the story of human evolution includes us all.” 1 Conde-Valverde, M., Diez-Valero, J.,

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

New research, led by Guillaume Charloux and published in PLOS ONE 1 , focuses on the third-to-second-millennium BCE town of al-Natah, shedding light on Arabia's unique urbanization process during this era. However, findings in northern Arabia indicate that urban development here took on a slower, more gradual trajectory during the Bronze Age.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. New research suggests that these schools might actually pay for themselves in long-term benefits to both students and the public as a whole. Photo: Kayleigh Skinner. Are they worth it?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

While writing a recent column about teachers conducting educational studies in their own classrooms, I was curious about when they might need to inform their students’ parents about this research and obtain parental permission. Consent is required, however, when the research involves something that isn’t “normal” classroom practice.

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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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Sapiens

MAY 6, 2025

While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives everyday. Her doctoral research explores connections between the first systemized forms of early release from incarceration and the modern practice of parole. Christine Weeber is the copy editor.

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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. Governance also played a role.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

Our goal is to invite graduate students and early career researchers in Classics and Philosophy to explore this important concept. God, humans, and the limits of piety and reason (e.g. Each paper will be assigned a responder, a senior researcher in the thematic area selected. Please send abstracts as pdf to sopeprah@ug.edu.gh

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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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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Importantly, the plan for this sanctuary is that the federal government and Native tribes of this part of California will collaboratively manage the CHNMS to protect the region’s marine ecosystems and cultural heritage. If approved, the CHNMS will be the first marine sanctuary in the U.S. proposed by Indigenous peoples.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. We don't have a lot of state statutes that govern how we do pre-K, Hume said. Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To deepen this work, Digital Promise has launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation , which will partner with districts and communities to pilot a research and development(R&D) model radically centered in amplifying marginalized voices. Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. Centering equity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. Our federal government realized the popular success of the ‘$10 a Day’ branding,” said Sharon Gregson, provincial spokesperson for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. “I

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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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. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Past research hasn’t investigated the connection, though, between the time demands that student-parents face and their subsequent college outcomes — so my colleagues, Alyse Hachey at the University of Texas at El Paso and Katherine Conway at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and I decided to research potential links.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

The research helped inform his influential “ attachment theory ,” which emphasizes the bond between parent and child and the harms that come from separating them. Those studies are part of a large body of research on what happens when kids are separated from their parents. Researchers worry how kids will cope with not having playmates.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The number of pre-kindergarten seats in New Orleans has dropped substantially since Hurricane Katrina, and researchers think it’s connected to the shift to independent charter schools. The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The companies pledged to focus on researching the societal dangers of AI, such as the perpetuation of bias and abuse of privacy, and to develop AI that addresses those dangers. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: By the close of this century, at least half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken today will become extinct – and that’s according to the rosiest of linguistic forecasts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. The arts are core to education and core to life because the essence of being human is creativity, not productivity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. Weekly Update.

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