Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

But new research 1 suggests that an earlier, lesser-known site—Flagstones, a Neolithic enclosure in Dorset—may have played a pivotal role in shaping these traditions. Or was it part of an older, parallel tradition that has largely been lost to time? A red deer antler found during an excavation of the Flagstones monument.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

In addition to her linguistics work, Sally contributed important studies of Indigenous California community histories, oral literatures, and the extraordinary Pomo basketmaking tradition, the most famous Pomo art and technology form. Sally died peacefully in her apartment in NYC on August 17, 2024, after several years of declining health.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Some include more traditional vocations like automotive, cosmetology, plumbing and carpentry, while others have expanded to industries including education, computer science, business, biotechnology and health care. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

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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. This is critically important to learning.

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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. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 27, 2024

Recently published in PLOS ONE 1 , research by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt explores the rich tapestry of culinary traditions spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

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.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions. Today, in the nontraditional sector, organizations and services have abandoned key elements of traditional higher education practice. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Together, these partners collaborate outside of the traditional silos of sector and institution to form a network that is uniquely poised to design, implement, iterate on, and disseminate breakthrough learning practices and tools. We’ve observed that there are several components that make a successful EdCluster.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. 1 Kadowaki, S., Wakano, J.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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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? That’s another one of many examples.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In addition, there’s the growth in noncollegiate educational providers, including museums and industry, along with new higher education-business partnerships. Related: Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to “microcredentials”. Colleges and universities no longer have a monopoly on credentials.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey , the story of Ulysses’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Mosaic from the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Two projects from Asia include the discovery of a Tang shipwreck, which takes you to an exhibit at the Singapore Museum , and a Story Map follows the early thirteenth-century travels of Yelu Chucai and Wugusun Zhongduan, who travel from north China to Central Asia after the Mongol empire's first conquests under Chinggis Khan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

This means the smallest amounts of more recent contamination from the burial environment, or from museum conservation materials, can make dating finds from these sites extremely challenging. Using a method called proteomics, researchers determined this nondescript bone fragment from Ilsenhöhle Cave belonged to a human.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is an upcoming festival of experiential learning events designed for learners and their families and hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, after school groups, and more. Social capital is highly important to future success.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Archaeologists from the Lolland-Falster Museum, in collaboration with Aarhus University, have analyzed the site and published their findings in Radiocarbon 1. (c) A close-up image of the cellar wall, highlighted with red lines, viewed from the west. Image Credit: *Radiocarbon* (2024). DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2024.79.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

William Taylor, co-author of the study and curator of archaeology at the CU Museum of Natural History, explained that the earliest definitive evidence of humans using horses for transport comes from the region near the Ural Mountains, dating back approximately 4,000 years. the skeletal evidence is far from conclusive.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

And while many parents are trying to find resources to homeschool, Golin said it’s important for parents to take pressure off themselves to provide a “traditional academic” experience for young children. Many museums offer virtual tours. In fact, it’s OK—and even good— to just let kids play by themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. Credit: (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Others chose homeschooling for kindergartners after watching older children in traditional school. For others, it’s a matter of keeping children in other child care arrangements that better fit their lifestyles.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

It’s become something of a tradition to order an entire fish when we go to this restaurant. When preschool-age children are introduced to science — whether in the classroom, at a museum or even while watching PBS — it’s usually in very basic terms: “Scientists solve problems”; “scientists discover new things”; “scientists are explorers.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. After his class, he said, kids doodle molecules in their school notebooks. Both teachers think the curriculum could bring more diversity to STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For science class, they head to a museum. Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education. Additionally, her two sons had experienced bullying at both traditional public schools as well as brick and mortar charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Sanfelippo found his district’s social-media rallying cry during a school field trip to Fall Creek’s history museum, where vintage banners, pennants and pins were emblazoned “Go Crickets!”. “We “Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 9, 2024

This session invites papers that explore points of interaction between art and systematic gender-based violence in the visual traditions of the ancient Mediterranean world. What degree of agency do the subjects of such violence have over the production of these visual traditions. Keywords: 1.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both students circulated to visit their other favorite teachers with whom they’d crafted solar ovens, made plant medicine tinctures and built a banana museum. On the way out of the building, they hugged and dapped up underclassmen they played soccer with or were involved in the student union with when they were students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School was designed to look like an art museum, with high-quality replications of famous paintings from around the world. Photo: Kevin Hagen. The arts can bridge communication gaps and convey a greater level of knowledge.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

More engaging than traditional summer school. Programs that encourage reading, thinking and discussion of ideas can be much more effective at pushing students toward college than traditional summer school, said Mandy Savitz-Romer , a former urban school counselor who is now a senior lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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