Sapiens

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021 and 2022, I conducted an archaeological walkover and photographic survey of the marshes. Though unmarked by commemorative plaques, the pitches have become a vast footballing heritage site: the “utopia,” as founder of Hackney Wick Football Club Bobby Kasanga has put it , “of grassroots football.”

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

ASKING “THE GODDAMN INDIAN” In March 2021, I (co-author Alicia) met with George and his son, Mike, over Zoom. For knowledge of the area’s history, O utsider researchers naturally draw on ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data—but their knowledge of the details is patchy. This increased tensions with Outsiders.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. We all have some history. We’re survivors.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? One of the challenges we face as African Norwegians is that our history in the country we have come to call home often is not well known, both within and outside our communities. As we’ve always done.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2025

On a cold morning in October, the sun shone weakly through tall sugar pines and cedars in Shingletown, a small Northern California outpost whose name is a reminder of its history as a logging camp in the 1800s. More than 5,000 new occupations have registered with the department to offer apprenticeships since 2021, he said.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 who are not white.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Yet a 2021 study found that dual-language “education can benefit … even students who often struggle in school because of special education needs.” And a 2018 paper found “no credible evidence that bilingual education adds or creates burden for children. Many communities lack sufficient bilingual educators to meet the desire for dual language.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For six weeks, we spent 40 percent of our time at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) office and 60 percent of our time at partner institutions: the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I never took a course in African American history during that time, the late 1980s and early 90s, despite being enveloped in Blackness in my neighborhoods, churches and schools. My knowledge of Black history came as sprinkling rain, a paltry amount that was never enough to have a significant impact.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. But it doesn’t end there.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

On October 25, 2021, using his power as chair of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating, Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency and to school districts listing some 850 books. The Watkins Glen conference also came on the heels of one of the most violent and divisive school textbook battles in history.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

They include Julia Alvarez’s 1991 novel, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” about four immigrant sisters from the Dominican Republic — a popular pick for readers during Latinx Heritage Month. We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books. Can you imagine?”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Parents described how their children couldnt tell the difference between North and South America and, despite BIE regulations requiring Native culture in all curriculum areas, the students never had a class in Havasupai culture, history or language.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 30, 2025

Kim Kielsen, who was prime minister of Greenland from 2014 to 2021, formulated a tantalizing counteroffer to Trumps claim. Blown off course on a voyage back home from Norway, Leif Erikson was the first known person of European heritage to set foot in continental North America, around 500 years before Columbus discovered the New World. (By

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

So they’re promising not to nationalize how schools teach history, except when they don’t like how certain schools teach history. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to “eliminate” and “redistribute the various congressionally approved federal education programs across the government.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Capitol in 2021. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country’s collapse to the Taliban in 2021. But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. cities, in part provoked by the Israel-Hamas war. We in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trump’s 2021 budget proposal called for eliminating the federal Preschool Development Grant program and decreased funding for a federal program that helps low-income college students pay for child care. . Nirvi Shah Teaching about U.S. The Biden administration rescinded the commission, but Trump has pledged to reinstate it if reelected.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Faced with the end of pandemic aid and more pressure on all fronts — some 16,000 child care providers closed permanently between December 2019 and March 2021 — states have been more assertive than ever before in developing their own child care policies. In 2021, he wrote on X that “‘Universal day care’ is a class war against normal people.”

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