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JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But others have made clear they view early care and education as an individual, not government, responsibility. It started with Randy Jensen, who became superintendent of the American Falls school district in 2017. Some, such as New Mexico , Minnesota and Vermont , have invested heavily. In the world today, everyone's so divided.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability. We found that governance mattered," noted archaeologist Helena Hamerow. Peterson, C. Betzenhauser, A., & Ortman, S.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Large settlements were often better resourced and more capable of managing complex challenges—irrigation, trade, defense, and governance among them. link] Offers a comparative analysis of wealth disparities across continents and cultures in the prehistoric and early historic periods. Kohler, T. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. In 2017, she was elected to serve on APSA council and was the first community college faculty member to ever be elected to this position. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover. representative Cedric L.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. To promote a healthier campus culture around seeking support for basic needs, campuses should redesign their existing spaces to be more welcoming. Collectively, the four recommendations above can contribute to a campus culture that is both welcoming of and responsive to students’ basic needs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. 585 forest kindergartens and outdoor preschools exist in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 percentage points — from 51.2

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MAY 11, 2021

Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 The 2017 Brown Center Report on American Education: Race and school suspensions found that Black students lose up to four times more days of instruction to suspensions than their white peers. But when will we finally “do better?”.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

worked in retail and restaurants for years before starting a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. Lupe Trejo entered a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. That culture discourages not only female workers, but also men who might ally with women to transform the trades, O’Neill said. Credit: Image provided by Lupe Trejo.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Aon, a London-based insurance giant, opened its U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. They say gentrification has sped up in the past few years; the average income in Santurce rose by almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2017. “It made me very sad to see the school closed.”.

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JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. For over three decades, Foster worked for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. million to 17.3

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

2017 December. Local lifeways are an afterthought for the state and central governments. 2017 Nduikeu. A defunct sign for the “Post Office” in Hindi, Bengali, and English exudes irony, as locals do not speak or write any of these fluently.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year. He’s “okay to sleep at night, comfortable that I’m going to graduate. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly.

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Sapiens

MAY 30, 2024

Since January 2017, for about eight months now, I’ve been following Aandhit and his workmates, a mixed group of Muslim and Hindu migrants ranging in age from 21 to 65. This question has special significance on the eve of 2024’s national elections in which the Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to retain control of India’s government.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

Since early 2017, students at Harvard have been pressing school administrators to sever the school’s financial ties to companies that support what they call the prison-industrial complex. In effect, these students are seeking to change not just the culture on their campus but to use their school to change society. Pushing to divest.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2017, barely a fifth of American Indian and Alaska Native adults ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college. There’s not much in the way of a college going culture at Chinle High, beyond the unsung efforts of a handful of exemplary coaches and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Many ESSA requirements went into effect during the 2016-17 school year; others will be enacted during the 2017-18 school year. Mississippi’s plan would address the problems of poor teacher recruitment and retention and would also try to increase teachers’ cultural competence and community connections.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Partly to attract enrollment, which has been declining, colleges and universities nationwide added 55,416 new programs in the five years ending in 2017, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of the most recent available federal figures. Cosumnes has 2,771 credit-bearing classes in 100 degree and certificate programs.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S., and the U.K.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can faculty establish a classroom culture encouraging constructive and inclusive political discussion around the 2024 U.S. She was recognized as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Endowed Professor for 2017 – 2020. election and other common political science themes? Michelle D. Deardorff is the Adolph S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. The federal government collects data on the fine arts only about once every 10 years and it tells us more about who is teaching music than which students have the opportunity to play it.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

A tenured Professor at the College of Southern Nevada, Professor Levy teaches courses in American Politics and Government, American Public Policy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Movements, Minority Politics and Women in Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. In 2017, according to district data, 44 percent of Lyncourt students in grades 2-6 were at or above grade level expectations on the school’s screening test.

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MAY 12, 2022

For the past two decades, colleges, aided by millions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, have been telling students to seek help, that it’s “OK to not be OK,” he said. They’ve trained faculty and peers to identify students in distress and refer them to counseling, and urged students not to suffer in silence.

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