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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.” For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

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But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. At the same time, the new federal education law passed in 2015 has removed some of No Child Left Behind’s teeth.

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Should taxpayers and schools invest in ‘growth mindset’ programs?

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When Victoria Sisk was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University in 2015, she watched Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck deliver an online TED Talk about the power of having a “growth mindset,” a theory Dweck developed. The federal government is funding a $3.5 Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I It’s not just academics.

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First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change

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Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

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psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government.