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Early Copper Crafting Among Anatolia's Last Hunter-Gatherers

Anthropology.net

Credit: Gre Fılla Excavation / Özlem Ekinbaş Can The Gre Fılla Site: A Window into Prehistoric Innovation Nestled in the upper Tigris Valley, Gre Fılla has been under excavation since 2018. ​ Furthermore, these findings underscore the importance of localized developments in technological advancement.

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Teach About Immigration

Zinn Education Project

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. Mexico War.

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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. The tests were administered in 2022.)

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. They know that I’m there for them.

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COLUMN: Financial literacy courses won’t solve the racial wealth gap

The Hechinger Report

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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