The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The report calls for more investment in training Native educators to teach computer science and related fields, and integrating Indigenous culture, traditions and languages into those classes.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 23, 2024

In the vast tapestry of human history, certain discoveries emerge as seismic shifts, reshaping our understanding of our origins and the paths we've traversed. Mithen's holistic approach, spanning disparate realms of inquiry, forms a tapestry of evidence that paints a vivid portrait of humanity's nascent linguistic capabilities.

Humanities 63

Humanities Archaeology Heritage Cultures 63

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Origins of Burial Practices in Human Evolution Around 120,000 years ago, both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals began practicing intentional burial in the Levant region, shaping a complex cultural narrative in human evolution. This gap suggests that burial practices may not have had an unbroken tradition across time and species.

Cultures 76

Cultures Archaeology Heritage Humanities 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What’s also becoming well-known is the essential role of traditional and Indigenous ecological knowledge in the effort to cope with the climate crisis. He will say that he talks to the children about the rhythms of nature, and humans’ place in the world. Authorities as disparate as UNESCO and the U.S.

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Heritage Tradition Cultures Psychology 112

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This has led to numerous archaeological and heritage sites appearing online in interactive 3D platforms, such as Sketchfab. One criticism of current 3D models of archaeological sites is that they are devoid of human traces and history. The omission of human usage and cultural traces renders these representations static and sterile.

Cultures 73

Cultures Archaeology Heritage Artifacts 73

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Eventually tiring of humans’ complaints and requests, he left Earth to live in the sky. If humans had accepted the invitation, we would have arboreal agilities too. We just draw from different backgrounds.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 97

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For centuries, these cloth objects have protected the region’s human and spirit-like beings against illness, death, birth, and seasonal change. Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. People buy or receive khatak as gifts.

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Tradition Humanities Cultures Government 110

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. and Antonio M.

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Heritage Pedagogy Psychology Cultures 129

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.

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Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 119

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Dating back to the late Holocene epoch, approximately 8,200 years ago, these ancient paintings provide insights into the cultural heritage of South America's early inhabitants. Recent discoveries 1 of rock art and cave paintings in the caves of Patagonia, Argentina, challenge previous notions about the antiquity of rock art in the region.

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Heritage Humanities Cultures Tradition 58

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As part of a unit on the human digestive system, teams of students had engineered replicas using things like paint rollers, balloons, funnels and tissue boxes, and this was the day they would present their designs. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. and abroad.

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High School Heritage Economics Cultures 111

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

Educational Technology 86

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 86

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2024

Unlocking the Mysteries of Message Sticks Dr. Kelly's work challenges traditional perceptions of message sticks as mere memory aids. Preserving Indigenous Heritage Central to Dr. Kelly's mission is the preservation and celebration of Indigenous heritage. 1 Kelly, P., Bibiko, H.-J., J., & Barker, L.

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Artifacts Heritage Museum Cultures 52

Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2024

This practice underscores the profound spiritual beliefs and ceremonial practices of the Coclé culture, where human sacrifices served as companions to ensure the chief's journey beyond. Unfinished Revelations and Enigmatic Burial Customs Despite the wealth of findings, the excavation is ongoing, leaving tantalizing questions unanswered.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Heritage Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. is in trouble. This fall there are five such language sections at Wesleyan.

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Heritage Global Studies Advocacy Psychology 99

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Knowledge sometimes can cause these internal conflicts, and even stress, where weoftenhave to decide between making a choice that we feel is ethical and correct or making a choice that fits our personal food preferences, traditions, lifestyle, bank accounts, and access. And again, I never tell people what to do.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Advocacy Heritage Cultures 52

Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style, houses genuine relics and is an important sanctuary for the shamanic worship of the legendary Mongol leader. Some say the soldiers in the funeral cortege killed every living thing — human and animal — they came across on their 40-day journey.

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Heritage Archaeology History Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Through that foundation, Plessy is a participant in the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ Turnaround Arts initiative, which donates supplies, helps provide art every day and in-classroom instruction from world-famous artists.

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Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 67

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. He has clinical depression.

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Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 235

Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

The term Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin encompasses practices that establish a relationship between places and people; these reflect a belief in souls, spirits, and the existence of human souls through eternity. Co-author Mike picked bitterroot for crafting traditional medicine in Lac Seul in 2008. They speak a dialect of Oji-Cree.

History 122

History Archaeology Cultures Tradition 122

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Fatma Elsamra Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi Reem Fakhry Dr. Sawsan Jaber The Big Picture “I think oftentimes people think cultural responsiveness sits more in a humanities classroom,” Jaber says. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas. I’m Palestinian.

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

Cultures 98

Cultures Heritage Tradition Government 98

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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Heritage Government Cultures Humanities 97

Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. This strategy allowed Townsend, and those who followed his footsteps, to gain access to places and languages that would have been impenetrable to traditional Christian missionaries.

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History Cultures Heritage Government 104

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.”

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 with hopes that black people would be proud of their heritage and that mainstream America would recognize the contributions of its black residents. Leave this field empty if you're human: But when Carson as U.S. The late, great historian Carter G. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

History 89

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. What followed were a series of ultimate insider jobs that culminated with heading the county’s Department of Health and Human Services from 1988 to 1991 and then serving as Milwaukee’s school superintendent from 1991 to 1995.

Charter School 101

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Island Trees Union Free School District board members mixed with representatives from the Heritage Foundation and parents opposed to school desegregation in Boston. for short). The keynote speaker, Genevieve Klein, a member of the New York State Board of Regents, advocated for adoption of a voucher system for education. Mellon of PONY-U.

Library 122

Library Heritage K-12 High School 122

Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. military mission that drops toys and supplies throughout Micronesia. Operation Christmas Drop embodies what many in the U.S.

Archiving 70

Archiving Heritage Geography History 70

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada. citizens.

Human Rights 130

Human Rights Education Heritage Library 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, if Upwards notices employees are calling off work to care for their children, they may recommend providing backup care credits to allow families to find providers at non-traditional hours. “By We should significantly increase the availability of women and men, or single parents, to be able to go back to work.

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Government Heritage Economics Tradition 113

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For example, if Upwards notices employees are calling off work to care for their children, they may recommend providing backup care credits to allow families to find providers at non-traditional hours. “By And we should encourage businesses to hold, to have child care facilities,” as ways to deal with the child care crisis. Related: D.C.

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Heritage Government Economics Tradition 94

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Those aren’t part of the Education Department’s job, either; they are managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. At that time, it was administered by the department of Health, Education and Welfare (now known as the Health and Human Services department). We tried to explain all of that here. We will update this list.

Education 138

Education Private School Charter School Government 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

K-12 115

K-12 Education Private School Charter School 115

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. It’s because they tap into a universal human need for safety, belonging, purpose, and order. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart.”

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Heritage Archiving Cultures Government 93

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In recent years, child care programs have seen an increase in disruptive behavior among children, as well as in undesirable behavior from staff, such as yelling or roughly pulling youngsters’ arms, said Ryan Page, the director of child care for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services.

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Government K-12 Heritage Research 144