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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. In A New Approach to Human Social Evolution 1 , neuroscientist and anthropologist Jorge A. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture.

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The new low-income big borrower of student loans

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. The $50,000 is adjusted for inflation in constant 2014 dollars.). In 2014, almost third of borrowers with large debts had taken out their loans to finance their undergraduate education. Weekly Update.

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This math tutoring program gets ‘blockbuster’ results in high-poverty schools

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

The Hechinger Report

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. No other state VR grant received that designation. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”.

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How a federal free meal program affected school poverty stats

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray. million in 2018.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

Federal legislation passed in 2014 aimed to reduce barriers to foster youth working after-school jobs, playing sports and participating in other activities, but implementation has been uneven. “I Government programs have also freed up some financial support. I think we’re setting them up to have a much harder time,” Pokempner said.

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