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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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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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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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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. “Dr. Congressional Record.

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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. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

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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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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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