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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

The Hechinger Report

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

Sapiens

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Most economists agree that too few residents with college degrees will slow Georgia’s economic growth, which could affect all residents. Governor Nathan Deal speaks before signing several bills, including HB 338, in Atlanta, on Thursday, April 27, 2017. It’s a problem occurring in other states as well. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Chernoff faces: The data-rich maps that stare back at you

Strange Maps

We humans are terrible at quickly analyzing complex datasets. A famous early example of Chernoff-faced cartography, establishing correspondences between race and three socio-economic factors in early-1970s Los Angeles. Here’s a more recent example, from 2017, dubbed The Emoji States of America. in Massachusetts (light) to 17.1%

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COLUMN: How can we improve math education in America? Help us count the ways

The Hechinger Report

It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation. Educator who replied to Hechinger’s survey “We need to make sure kids understand that their decision to take or not take certain math classes will largely determine the economic opportunities that will be available to them,” she said.

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