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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Sapiens

It wasn’t the Ifugao who argued that the terraces are 2,000 years old, it was the archaeologists and historians, explains co-author Marlon Martin, chief operating officer of the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, a heritage conservation and education organization.

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

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

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. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. For some students, that fills an aching need.

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Being Global and Chinese on WeChat

Anthropology News

I mean, you are just someone who has Chinese heritage, right?” For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture. Does using WeChat qualify someone to be “Chinese”? “So, So, you are not like a real Chinese.

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???“Å falle mellom to stoler”: Africans in Norway 

Anthropology News

Our mission has always been to communicate knowledge, highlight African contributions to the world’s cultural heritage, and to create. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Oslo, Norway: Norsk Kulturråd and Fritt Ord, 2012. Organizations like ours cannot, and should not simply stop existing. As we’ve always done.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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Thriving Against the Odds: How Homo erectus Conquered Extreme Environments

Anthropology.net

Adapting to Harsh Realities The research, led by Dr. Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, highlights how Homo erectus repeatedly occupied areas in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania—a UNESCO World Heritage site. This iconic landscape is known for its rich archaeological record and its pivotal role in unraveling human origins.