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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants.

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

The Hechinger Report

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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Baltoscandia: The geopolitical ghost that may just have a future

Strange Maps

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. You’ve probably never heard of Baltoscandia. It sounds like a made-up country, and that’s because it is a made-up country. Scandinavia is not the same as the Nordics, for example.

History 108
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Anthropology for Beginners

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From a field of inquiry with a diverse scope its fundamental goal.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

The Hechinger Report

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. The federal government tracks only the total number of bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs, not the subjects they cover. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.