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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

While we sat and drank our tinto, a woman told us about her husband who had been murdered, and a man spoke of efforts to create clubs for youth to help them evade the pressures of joining leftist guerillas or right-wing paramilitaries.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. For example, in 2021 the Foster Woods Folk School offered a virtual teach-in with a series of five- to seven-minute “illegal lessons” from or about a historical site or event near them. Every action counts.

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A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

They are more likely to attend schools with concentrated poverty, and they score significantly lower on state testing than other economically disadvantaged students. We will not fix homelessness until the federal government believes that housing is a human right,” Ronen said. God was always with me,” she said.

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How to keep dual-language programs from being gentrified by English speaking families

The Hechinger Report

That coincided with a growing recognition by privileged families of the economic and career benefits of bilingualism, and a particular interest in affluent communities in studying Spanish and Mandarin. And a 2018 paper found “no credible evidence that bilingual education adds or creates burden for children.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. The deadline to apply for Wiki Education’s free support in Spring 2022 is November 21, 2021.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

By early 2021, they had no insurance to pay for health care, no work permits to make ends meet. Meanwhile, immigrants have been ravaged by the virus globally, as they’ve endured much higher risk of infection than native-born populations while their jobs have also been decimated by the economic downturn. People died in MPP.

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Teachers struggle to teach the Holocaust without running afoul of new ‘divisive concepts’ rules

The Hechinger Report

.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. In November 2021, New Hampshire’s education department posted an online form for people wanting to lodge complaints against teachers.

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