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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. We want them to learn how to claim space, because we grew up in Cape Town, but we don’t really know Cape Town.”

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science.

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New events from the RGS-IBG

Living Geography

Cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. 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.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. That’s why, for example, 92.9

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

She is also the co-author of White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal), published by Princeton University Press in 2015. It received APSA’s Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015. Laia Balcells is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University.