Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. higher education exacerbate, rather than reduce, these inequities.

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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. 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.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. In 2012, Holdens biography was entered into the U.S. Dr. Mary Coleman is the former SVP and COO, Economic Mobility Pathways, Boston, Massachusetts (retired).Former

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I managed people, built schools, designed programs and lobbied at the highest levels of government; I raised money from philanthropy and created complex strategic plans. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. prior to ever enrolling a student.

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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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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. We’re finally dealing with the systemic challenges to success … instead of just the symptoms.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Since 2012, the volume of new private student loan originations has increased each year, but the volume of new federal student loan originations has decreased during that period. “A By contrast, for student loans held by the federal government, borrowers don’t have to pay until Sept. 30, and the interest is zero until that date.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Investors should pay particular attention to cities that have an HBCU.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? In 2012, the William Penn Foundation donated $1.5 Kenneth Wong said the fact that Mississippi’s Department of Education has not backed away from its recommendation for a state takeover adds an important and interesting element to this governance model.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic downturn, student financial aid no longer is enough to fill the gap, and low- and middle-income families already are having trouble making ends meet just to cover living expenses, the report said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. think tank. Like the U.S.,

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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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

This is one of the few things outside school that young people have to do in this neighborhood, which the government ranks among the country’s poorest. One-third more girls than boys in Britain go to college, government statistics show. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female. In the U.S., Photo: Dominic Barnfather. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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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.” In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. He’s “okay to sleep at night, comfortable that I’m going to graduate. And kids after me are going to graduate.” Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. DUDLEY, Mass. — He’s increasingly confident it won’t.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

Without a degree, those who leave college often can’t get decent-paying jobs to make a dent in their loans, hurting their economic futures and that of the state as a whole. . But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? #> #> #> Gibler, Douglas M.,

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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. La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces.

Human Rights 59

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. 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.

Research 68

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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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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. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. Parents know their kids’ only shot at escaping poverty is the county’s public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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