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A Mauseoleum of Our Everydays/Nai nsang negu herouki

Sapiens

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A 2017 December. 2017 Nduikeu. A Mausoleum of Our Everydays” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state.

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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Political Science Now

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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OPINION: Can you denounce female circumcision ­— and also extreme depictions?

The Hechinger Report

The isolated few who conduct terrorist attacks like those on my great-grandfather’s church think of the Coptic people, my people, as sub-human. For example, in 2017, assaults on Muslims in the U.S. exceeded post-9/11 levels , according to the Pew Research Center. .” Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

In response to widespread social unrest caused by the collapse of digital Ponzi schemes, the Chinese state intensified regulation in 2017, accelerating the market’s decline. Here, the integration of human and cybernetic systems through app design further solidified people’s belief in the stability and power of P2P platforms.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to “ban the box” on public college and university applications, prohibiting school officials from asking whether an applicant has a criminal record. Then, in March 2017, a man named Hakim Kashif visited the halfway house. But Metz didn’t want to lie on an application.

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