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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Reproducing Fictional Ethnographies: Surrogacy and Digitally Performed Anthropological Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Sanes gets a lot of support for this approach from his administration. When I first got there.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems

Digital Promise

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question.

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

The Hechinger Report

A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It That is an ongoing fear.”.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

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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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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