Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi] Redfield's formal statement on 'the folk society and culture,' as a comparative type apart from any specific cultural setting, appeared first in 1940— appropriately enough, in a volume edited by Louis Wirth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

550 billion — the investment needed to bring schools nationwide up to standard due to damage caused by postponing repairs, according to a 2013 federal estimate. Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Many students have fun on the playground when the school is closed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must create an inclusive culture. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. It made me very sad to see the school closed.”.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The year prior, the ratio was at 415-to-1, and indeed, the margin has been closing every consecutive year since 2013-14 , when it was at 491-to-1. Once that happened and they saw the negative impact [that the cuts] had on students and student outcomes and school culture, they reinstated school counselors, hired more school counselors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013. Meetings are where people come together in time and space. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Those grim statistics, and a flurry of seed funds from state governments and nonprofit organizations, are compelling colleges to take the often joked-about issue of campus drug use much more seriously, acknowledging a problem that still makes many campus leaders — especially in recruitment, development, and alumni offices — uncomfortable.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2022

An assistant professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, she could focus on her passion of studying Afro-Latin American culture. University and college administrators, governing boards, state legislators and governors say they’re trying to improve the efficiency of higher education at a time of limited resources and sharply declining enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. The new focus has paid off.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. During the same period, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials.

High School 89

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

That 17-point gap was slightly lower than in 2013, when 11 percent of the university’s freshmen were Latino and 29 percent of the state’s high school graduates were Latino, an 18-point difference. A number of precollegiate government and university programs have been established to funnel more young people to higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2022

For the past two decades, colleges, aided by millions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, have been telling students to seek help, that it’s “OK to not be OK,” he said. They’ve trained faculty and peers to identify students in distress and refer them to counseling, and urged students not to suffer in silence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. About two-thirds are guaranteed positions on the faculty, often with the help of graduate assistants, and get free admission to campus sports and cultural events, VIP parking and continued paid-for memberships to country clubs and social organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

By 2016, almost 70 percent of Edmondson’s students received a free or reduced-price lunch and came from low-income families; the school was eligible to receive Title 1 funds from the federal government. Hutchins has been working on this issue with the state since 2013. One that centered on listening.

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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. Engelkemeyer conceded that it still takes time to change an academic culture that has enjoyed an almost uninterrupted supply of students since she started teaching in 1990. million in 2013 to $15.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. He has worked there since graduating from nearby Fremont High School in 2013 and is now the Tech Hub coordinator? The homework gap isn’t new. for the nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. She knows what’s possible with the right combination of support and school culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. Williams didn’t want to ask for help after she fell behind her first semester at UNO. I struggled with that.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Like “Ready Player One,” it’s packed with references to pop culture from the early days of computers and digital culture that made me nostalgic for a simpler, more optimistic time of tech. The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.”

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Cultures Private School Elementary School Humanities 73

Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

Since 2013, overdose rates have spiked with wider access to powerful synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl. Overdose fatality rates began rising in the late 1990s , with medical professionals prescribing higher rates of opioids, a class of pain-relieving drugs with addictive qualities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

It also showed other industries a concrete way to knock down cultural and social barriers in the hiring process. When you’re in an interview and they use words like “culture fit” several times,” one black teacher who didn’t take a job in a Washington, D.C.

Education 57

Education Economics Public School Cultures 57

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Timing is Crucial.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Many of the systems aimed at America’s youth are out of sync with the science, according to a report released in 2013 by the National Research Council. For Black boys and other children of color the increased the risk of being punished at school begins as early as preschool, according to government data. Juliet Moreno of Deming, N.M.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s built around a skills-based model that prioritizes student mastery, extensive community outreach and a culture that views college enrollment as an expectation rather than a long shot. Chemistry teacher Mary Norris has seen a dramatic turnaround in academics and culture at the Benito Juarez Community Academy over the last nine years.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. This leads to negative outcomes for communities, including the loss of unique cultural knowledge. Perhaps the best known is Glottolog.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Giving them their own building and cultural activities, intensive personal and academic help, and even free food are among the measures Canadian universities are taking to increase the enrollment and graduation odds of native, or indigenous, students, who get college degrees at less than half the rate of whites. Six thousand died.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. We wanted social studies standards to have the flexibility to speak to culturally responsive pedagogies and, on the other hand, not let the federal government tell local or state governments how curricula should be created.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

“When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren’t allowed to have the same kind of sports teams [these were] important inflection points for the federal government to get involved,” the new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, said recently. Department of Education from 2013 to 2017. I led the U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. Because I’ve always understood school choice as “this is government money that will follow the student to whatever they go to.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. They love family.

High School 139

High School K-12 Heritage Professional Development 139

Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can faculty establish a classroom culture encouraging constructive and inclusive political discussion around the 2024 U.S. Ochs Professor of Government and the prior Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). election and other common political science themes?

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