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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity. They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023. Israel’s genocidal war endangers deaf and disabled Palestinians disproportionately.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. context and shared cultural history.