A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Optimally, we inspire our students to pursue a career in which they will be posing relevant questions, and using research and inquiry to answer those questions to contribute to humanity’s general body of knowledge or, through technology and engineering, solve problems. Literacy skills are the foundation upon which these outcomes are built.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Protein Clues in the Absence of DNA Pulled from a fishing net and eventually donated to Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science, the Penghu 1 jaw retained no usable DNA. But researchers turned to another molecular witness: ancient proteins. Suggested Related Research Chen, F., Then came Penghu 1. link] Slon, V.,

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

Researchers led by Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen have pieced together evidence that connects these enigmatic artifacts to a period of climate upheaval. The researchers believe the stones were deliberately buried in a coordinated effort. John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation. These attachment sites adapt and strengthen with frequent use, allowing researchers to infer habitual behaviors. "By The hand bones of Australopithecus sediba.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

By sequencing DNA from 50 individuals interred over centuries, researchers discovered 1 a striking social structure: women, not men, were at the heart of these communities. By comparing data from other Iron Age cemeteries across Britain, the researchers identified similar patterns of maternal inheritance in Yorkshire and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last summer I participated in the VoxBox Civic Engagement course sponsored by the American Museum of Tort Law, an institution that focuses on civil justice and was developed by the political activist Ralph Nader. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958 and the decline in trust is very real.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

By analyzing genetic divergences in early Homo sapiens populations, researchers argue that the biological capacity for language must have been present at least 135,000 years ago. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. Further Reading & Related Research Tattersall, I. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Faculty of Arts have unveiled an innovative approach, combining Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies with excavation practices. The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections.

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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. Meanwhile, Annas Archive bypasses academic paywalls, making research freely available but raising legal and ethical questions about open access.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Examples of VMPs range from setting up a display in a local museum called “Primates in Motion”, writing a grant proposal for a specific archaeological site, creating a fund raising campaign for an endangered primate species, creating an interactive display on the evolution of a Pliocene hominin (see Fukuzawa & Boyd, 2016; Fukuzawa, 2018).

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history.

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. The program, called Research Quest , was designed for middle school students.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces. Credit: The Rowan University Virtual Reality Lab.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. Other times students went on field trips to museums where art educators explained paintings and sculptures. To the researchers, that was good news.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Colonial archaeologies denigrate non-Western societies to the status of static yet living museums from which the nature of the past might be inferred. The unchanged and living museum like character has been used in legitimizing the colonial rule over its subjects.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Her research interests included the areas of health policy issues, program performance evaluation, Black women, and related political issues. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson has conducted extensive research on Afro-Brazilian, African American and Afro-Latin American politics. He has a BA.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

By carefully tracking changes in their size and structure over time, researchers reconstructed a detailed picture of how humans shaped the fruit long before large-scale farming existed. “It fills a big hole in our knowledge.”

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. EdSurge: What is the SLIDE study?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Researchers analyzing 22 ancient feline remains from 14 sites across China have reshaped the timeline of cat domestication in the region. Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) A Tang Dynasty mural from A.D. 829 is one of the earliest depictions of domestic cats in China. Two black-and-white cats are visible at the center.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2018

MaderEarlyEdSTEM: Researchers say various types of play teach children important concepts relating to science, technology, engineering and math. Rood said the research is clear that talking to kids about ideas and concepts is critical. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Rood said parents and caregivers can help. “We

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community. I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.”

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

This year, ACLS is partnering with 16 nonprofit organizations including National Public Housing Museum (IL), Disability Rights North Carolina (NC), Coalition for the Homeless (NY), and the Highlander Research and Education Center (TN). Fellows will take on roles in advocacy, policy research, communications, public engagement, and more.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries around third grade reading” according to Dreama Gentry, executive director of Partners for Education at Berea College. “Our

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2024

Endowed with 61 meticulously etched markings, Ötzi's tattoos have long puzzled researchers, prompting inquiries into their significance, symbolism, and the sophisticated techniques employed in their creation. © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Samadelli/Staschitz. 2015: fig.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

We are hoping to spend a day together at the Wannsee Villa near Berlin which today is a museum that deals with a meeting of high ranking Nazi officials in 1941 when they crafted the Final Solution. Her high school principal contacted me recently and we are arranging to meet with Sarah, her classmates, and the principal in Berlin.

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