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Accounting Streams takes inspiration from CORE Econ’s pioneering introductory textbook

CORE Econ

CORE inspiration We felt that this situation presented some parallels to economics education, where CORE had successfully established a change agenda. ‘Accounting as Technical, Social, and Moral Practice: The Monetary Valuation of Public Cultural, Heritage and Scientific Collections in Financial Reports.’ van der Kolk.

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Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Anthropology News

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. The absence of a financial reward does not seem to hinder treasure hunting.

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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

ED Surge

population speaks only English as of 2019. While the majority of the population is monolingual, America is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world , with more than 350 languages spoken within its borders, including a wealth of Indigenous and heritage languages. According to the U.S.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district. They're not learning. I know they can.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

At Kent State University at Ashtabula, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree between fall 2013 and spring 2019. Between fall 2013 and spring 2019, university officials say, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree from Ashtabula. Very few have succeeded.

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Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. The global linguistic crisis is most stark in the predominantly English-speaking countries of the United States, Australia and Canada.

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