Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. By way of this maneuver, (settler) environmentalists attempt to claim innocence vis-à-vis an ongoing history of land expropriation, enslavement, and profit-driven growth from which they continue to benefit.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. I received lots of compliments from teachers and students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors. I wondered how we might do that in class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. And we are proud that U.S.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The question of which socio-economic dynamics aggravate and/or hinder treasure hunting has become one of my focal points during my field research in the Trabzon region in northeastern Turkey. The absence of a financial reward does not seem to hinder treasure hunting. What else may motivate one to search for treasures, then?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Mirador opened in 2019 with great pomp as the first and largest industrial copper-gold mine in the country. Lawyers and engineers followed, along with hopeful promises to local people of never-seen-before development, jobs, and economic growth.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. These numbers don’t include New York City, which prohibited most long-term suspensions in 2019.) BRENTWOOD, N.Y. looking for him.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2024

Clearly, the vestiges of academia’s sexist history still haunt us. The share of public academic institutions offering child care services declined by 14 percent from 2004 to 2019. And women professors, especially women of color, are still underpaid relative to their male colleagues with similar publication records.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Fortunately, mass teacher resignations and retirements largely haven’t come to pass, even as the pandemic nears the end of its third year. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2019

Special thanks to Estella Gonzalez, Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley , our partner organization in Houston, Texas, for sharing her family’s story. Estella Gonzalez is the Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley. The answer is complicated, as is the history of immigration in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. And the Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly thrown the ratio even more off balance.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Instead, it looks broadly at history, politics, ideologies, and other factors to explain how these harms emerge and get perpetuated across time and space. However, none have yet succeeded due to a combination of cultural, economic, and institutional barriers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

And recently, Virginia legislators passed a law that requires five public institutions — the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, Longwood University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Military Institute — to “ make reparations through scholarships or community-based economic development and memorial programs.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Will history repeat? Now the proof is starting to come in.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. Today, following the global pandemic surge, 24 Chinese MOOC platforms offer an astonishing 52,000 courses, more than double the number in 2019. out of global technical supremacy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. This debt is disproportionately held by black borrowers , who, because of our history of racial inequality, are more likely to borrow for college, to borrow in higher amounts and to take longer to repay the debt. Prosperity Now.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs’ work history and family commitments might seem like key selling points for colleges that say they value grit, time management skills and maturity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. However, the district did not provide any special education services.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. “[W]e are unable to replicate his finding,” they wrote. . Related: Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33-country study finds.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. My mom was shocked,” Toney said, laughing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Nina shared her culture with her teammates, too, by teaching them about the history of the game.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

educators — the lasting social and economic impact of COVID-19 and America’s ongoing racial reckoning; teacher burnout, trauma and mental health; low pay and low morale in the profession; public scapegoating of teachers; and the incessant escalation of demands on their time with shrinking professional resources. Alsaidi, S., Glaeser, E.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

More than 80 percent of the school’s roughly 500 students are classified as economically disadvantaged. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting. Related: ‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of the pandemic. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Jonah Rockoff, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia University. To understand the uproar that surrounded the school board’s decision to close the West Charlotte middle schools, it helps to know a little bit about the district’s history. John’s University. “We Neither is perfect. The jury is still out.” Neither is perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The only major topic still not featured is Crew, and two books and several videos to cover that subject are now underway and should be ready by the fall of 2019. Berger said that there are now 10 books and around 250 videos covering everything from student-engaged assessments to learning showcases to examples of expeditions.

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Strange Maps

APRIL 8, 2024

DEED ) The legend in the map’s lower left corner gives an example of how versatile this system is: Books on the history of a state will be found on the shelves under the Classification Number shown on the Map. Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 becomes 917.73 becomes 917.73

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

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. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

In September 2019 more than half of all ACSI member schools, which account for about 45 percent of all non-Catholic Christian schools in the U.S., But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it.

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