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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school.

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The Sand Creek Massacre

Teaching American History

The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge.

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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Anthropology.net

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture. DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13391

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Reflections on the “Historicity” of Child Death at Ireland’s Former Mother and Baby Homes

Anthropology News

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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It used to be a notoriously violent prison. Now it’s home to a first-of-its kind education program

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.”

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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. There was nothing like this.

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How one Minnesota university more than doubled its native student graduation rate

The Hechinger Report

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. It was a major culture shock,” said Golding. It was a major culture shock. In my culture, you don’t leave your family,” said Richards, now 28.

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