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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

The Bond Between Nature and Culture in Borneo The lush rainforests of Borneo are more than just biological treasure troves; they are cultural cornerstones for the island’s indigenous communities. Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Current economic anxieties that erupted with the pandemic in 2020 are certainly not helping the humanities now. “It’s That’s true for college students too.

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OPINION: Meet certificates and “microcredentials” — they could be the future of higher education

The Hechinger Report

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

Education 144
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Why Schools Should Focus on Social Capital Development — Not Just Skills

ED Surge

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. Those with social capital may wield it to maintain power and reinforce authority, often at the expense of those with less. But education just isn’t there yet.

Sociology 141
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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

The Hechinger Report

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

Economics 129
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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

The conversation that morning in December 2019 followed the lead of the seven or eight most vocal students. In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white.

Teaching 141
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The shuttering of a rural university reveals a surprising source of its financing

The Hechinger Report

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

Economics 135