Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The impact of the 2015 earthquakes, a focus during my fieldwork, had reduced many of the city’s magnificent temples to rubble; however, in 2022 some of these temples had already been rebuilt and others were undergoing reconstruction.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” ” Some professions are more dangerous than others.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. A few pressures might incentivize four-year colleges to step up their efforts. He went on to earn his Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. They have an economic impact. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

A report in 2015 found that level four apprenticeship. With a few notable exceptions, they do not train skills that students need to gain economic independence. A university is also the best place to acquire social and cultural capital. This gets results at a society scale. And this is indispensable for the poor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that 25 percent of low-income students who enrolled in community college for the first time in the fall of 2015 transferred to a four-year school , and only 11 percent earned a bachelor’s degree within six years of first enrolling in a community college.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2019

percent for the period ending 2017 compared to the period ending 2015, according to Census data. In addition, people not otherwise affiliated with schools can view proximity to a university as a plus, as the campus offers amenities such as green space or venues for cultural events. The increase was just 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C. This effort does that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education. In the 2014-2015 school year, only half of all students were reading at or above proficiency level, according to school data provided by the district.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. A lack of morale and cultural competency.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. Mississippi Learning. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The uniformity and scale of the state logging — and the prioritization of profit and yield — do not align with the tribes’ forestry plans, which are tied to cultural values and use of land, Incashola said. Since 2015, the state has made $775,387.82 We can’t do anything about it, because they have the right to manage their land.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. Let’s scrutinize the economic and cultural factors that decrease college graduation rates. Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

African-American and Latino workers comprise just 16 percent of the advanced manufacturing workforce, 15 percent of the computing workforce and 12 percent of the engineering workforce, rates that have remained essentially flat for more than a decade, according to the 2015 US News/Raytheon STEM Index. It was a culture shock.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. That’s horrific enough.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Flexible Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding meant the college could offer the program tuition-free. This will be part of our Murray culture now,” says Superintendent Jennifer Covington.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“It’s so fun,” said Ayiana, who comes from the Iñupiaq culture and lives in Kotzebue, a coastal town just north of the Bering Strait. Sam, who is also from the Iñupiaq culture, loves math. Most of the 11 distinct Alaska Native cultures are represented among ANSEP’s students. A member of the Unangax culture, he grew up on St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing. ET) on The History Channel.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math. From 2012 to 2015, its white and black students saw improvement on reading tests, and the black students in many cases outscored their black peers in the rest of the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture. Report it here.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Somehow you have to create a narrative over time that erodes citizens’ support for public schools and counters their incredible historical legacies of college and career preparation, citizenship development, cultural socialization, economic opportunity creation, and facilitation of intergenerational income mobility. .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. The culture of attendance is huge. If parents weren’t taught that it’s important, then their kids are not going to be taught that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

states roll out the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act under an administration hostile to public education, these states must support the development of excellent, nurturing teachers who provide a rich learning experience. Meg Ray, a computer science teacher in the Bronx, creates video lessons for her computer science students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. It’s about unlearning learning culture,” said Johnson. We are the product of a culture that wants to see it done right first.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. million people, the country is significantly smaller — the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity. In fact, many U.S. College is free.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. And you’ve got to make sure that they understand the culture of the school, but at the same time, you’ve got to make them feel needed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

High-achieving low-income students, in particular, don’t know what “liberal arts” means, according to a 2015 study by researchers at Stanford and the University of Virginia. China and other economic rivals add them. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what? Related: While liberal arts decline in U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

The monotony of working retail had finally gotten to Amalia Lewis-Miller by 2015, when she decided to go to college. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. The program is being eliminated. After five years of clocking in at Home Depot, she was 27 and earning $12 an hour.

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