Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

He suggested that there was more to this group of countries than just geographic proximity and cultural similarity: Cooperation between them could have economic, military, and political dimensions. Scandinavia is not the same as the Nordics, for example. Credit : Giedrius S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. New programs are often tied to social, demographic and economic trends. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own. prior to ever enrolling a student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. 1 predictor of college success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. It’s about shifting a culture. What made this opportunity special,” Radford said, “was that it was for everybody.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders. Meng’s experience was just one among millions.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This imbalance has worsened since the economic downturn. Those schools boosted their spending on athletics by 112 percent above inflation from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012 according to the AAUP. In 2012 the average salary for Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches was $1.64 They don’t exist.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

After years of promising to save money by streamlining operations, cutting duplicate staffs and maximizing purchasing power, some university systems have been forced by political pressure and economic realities to finally start doing it. From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. He said that “there’s always resistance from what I call the elite … who think that gifted children look a particular way.” Absolutely,” districts can diversify gifted education without a lawsuit, he said. Report it here.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

While there’s been a seemingly huge increase in the number of Hispanics going to college — college enrollment among Hispanics aged 18 to 24 more than tripled between 1996 and 2012, the Pew Research Center reports — it’s still not on pace to close the gap. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. In fact, many U.S. College is free. Nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Our findings build not only on our own prior work, but also on decades of research finding girls underrate their abilities on tasks and careers that are culturally considered male. Emerging research suggests gender gaps in STEM seem wider in more economically developed countries and more affluent zip codes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Once the state introduced the Common Core-aligned tests in the spring of 2012, that percentage dropped 28 points in reading (to 48 percent) and 33 points in math (to 40 percent), according to the Kentucky Department of Education. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. Graphic: Davin McHenry. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In “sharp contrast to other ages and other cultures,” Tough writes, “mobility in the United States today depends, in large part, on what happens to individuals during a relatively brief period in late adolescence and early adulthood.”. But there’s also a lot of luck involved, which probably isn’t a good thing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. And a number of lease holders fell prey to economic realities —the company that had leased Albemarle County’s spectrum, for example, struggled in the great recession and had to back out of the deal in 2012. We can flip the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It The national average for private, nonprofit colleges is 82 percent.). Nichols College is not immune to these issues.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Still, England shares many cultural and economic similarities, certainly more than the Scandinavian countries often cited as having ideal educational systems. Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. And what if it’s full?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Soon, however, the testimonial microphone gave way to a vibrant sound system playing music from a local band.

Human Rights 59

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

While there’s been a seemingly huge increase in the number of Hispanics going to college — college enrollment among Hispanics aged 18 to 24 more than tripled between 1996 and 2012, the Pew Research Center reports — it’s still not on pace to close the gap. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

Most educational programs in the Dominican Republic are designed with the assumption that helping youth learn English will prepare them for local jobs in the tourism industry and ultimately improve their economic livelihoods. Yet what happens when youth are encouraged to shape their multilingualism toward an extractive labor market?

Social Justice 52

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Steven V. Miller

DECEMBER 27, 2023

1 Part of the challenge this year has been overhauling the advanced MA class on quantitative methods to make it less about time series and as much about models students in international relations or economic history might encounter in their travels. I select the data here to 2012 as part of the DCE12 that is forthcoming in {stevedata}.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Early Neolithic farmers, known for their distinct Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, or LBK), expanded rapidly across the region. Map of the LBK culture and the studied sites. The Violent Collapse of the LBK Culture By 5000 BCE, the Linear Pottery Culture began to decline, marked by episodes of violence and social upheaval.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

But the increasing power and cultural influence of black women don’t equal protection. The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. Black women are standard bearers who transcend race and class.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In death, these women continue the work they performed while living – developing, transmitting, and embodying new ways of being within the shifting cultural landscapes and intersectional power imbalances of ancient colonies. If you have questions, please email savannah.marquardt@yale.edu or mscarp@sas.upenn.edu Works Cited: Becker, M.J.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. PepsiCo and FedEx have regional corporate offices there, and Toyota Motor North America moved its headquarters to Plano in July of 2017. At most work colleges, students work on campus, often in farm-related duties.

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