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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. But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic.

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The Architecture of Inequality

Anthropology.net

Governance also played a role. “Although history has shown us that technology and population growth can raise the potential for inequality,” Kohler says, “people have implemented systems that mute that potential.” This contradicts the common belief that technological change always benefits elites first.

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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?

The Hechinger Report

The federal government invested a lot of money in new students,” said Shapiro. Even after Pell and other grants, inflation-adjusted tuition at public four-year colleges and universities rose 19 percent from 2006 to 2012. Will history repeat? Related: Federal data shows 3.9 Ironically, funding for education plummeted.

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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Anthropology.net

For much of history, the rise of inequality has been treated like gravity: inevitable, natural, and inescapable. From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy

The Hechinger Report

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I Futter, president emerita of AMNH. “We

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Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs

The Hechinger Report

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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