The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021, there was a sudden shift in how school board meetings around the country were conducted: Routine meetings turned heated, with angry community members often accusing educators of teaching their kids about critical race theory without their knowledge. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

[Image Courtesy: Jamie Kidston, ANU] The Laili Rock Shelter Discovery The Laili rock shelter, located in northern East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste), has been the focus of extensive research conducted by archaeologists from Australian and UK universities, including the Australian National University (ANU) and Flinders University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. Nationally, in 2021, U.S. Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., and LaGarrett J. King, Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.” So we see this sort of segregation going on,” said Julia Mendez, a researcher for the center.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Figures from the Pew Research Center show that Latinos are still vastly underrepresented in the science, math and technology workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Nationally, schools employ thousands of educators who are not fully certified in their teaching areas, according to data from the Learning Policy Institute, a national education research nonprofit. Related: When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

But Andrew Koricich, executive director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges at Appalachian State University, said the region’s residents deserve a comprehensive college. Then, in 2021, and again in 2022, the region suffered severe flooding, which washed away homes and took the lives of almost 50 residents of Southeast Kentucky.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

According to the 2022 report on this national assessment by a team of researchers at Stanford and Harvard, the data showed that while students with mostly remote classes had lower scores on average, remote learning had little impact on a student’s performance. Hogan in the New York Times article.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

We know this from over twenty years of research, which you can read about in our newly released Inclusive Learning Research Brief. Billionaire dark money funded the conservative infrastructure that initiated attacks on critical race theory and DEI at all levels of education led by the Heritage Foundation.

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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). We have learned and grown so much through the internship.

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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. “I spent months writing,” she said, “just crying while I wrote because of how it felt to not be recognized.”

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was in Accra, Ghana, for my field research at the time, and the other participants were located in Oslo, Norway. Thanks to the work of writers and researchers like Ivorian-Norwegian Yacoub Cissé and Franco-Cameroonian historian Olivette Otele, we now have books like 400 Years of Black Norway and African Europeans: An Untold History.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

She is the author of the 2021 book Include ( Amazon | Bookshop ) and a co-author of the upcoming book Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K-12 Settings ( Amazon | Bookshop ). Darius calls himself a fractional Persian due to his mother’s Iranian heritage, and he never feels like he fits in.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

More than half of community college students between the ages of 18 and 22 screened positive for at least one mental health condition, according to a study in the Psychiatric Services journal from 2021 (even before the full effects of the pandemic had settled in ). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter [link to newsletter].

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In too many places, admissions processes send a message that dual-language learning is not for everyone (when research shows that actually it is ). Yet a 2021 study found that dual-language “education can benefit … even students who often struggle in school because of special education needs.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

12, 2021, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Oklahoma, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against the state on behalf of students, educators and civil right groups over House Bill 1775 , a law approved in 2021 that bans schools from teaching certain concepts related to race and gender. “We

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. ASKING “THE GODDAMN INDIAN” In March 2021, I (co-author Alicia) met with George and his son, Mike, over Zoom. They will help translate “animist” Insider worldviews for Outsiders.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Utpala’s biodegradable prayer flags gained international recognition in 2021 after they were raised at the Boudhanath stupa, a major pilgrimage and tourist landmark in Kathmandu. The pilgrimage landmark Boudhanath stupa replaced its synthetic lungta with Utpala Craft’s biodegradable prayer flags in 2021. But challenges remain.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2025

Around the country, community colleges are stepping in to run apprenticeship programs for heritage industries, such as logging and aquaculture, which are too small to run. For regional heritage trades like logging, just a few apprentices can make the difference between staying in business and shutting down. operates a loader.

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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. For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 i] Yet research on Asian Americans’ perceptions of belonging tells another story. who are not white. and in its schools.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO). The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. RIPOs work bankrupts that narrative.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Through uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating, researchers have identified these artworks as some of the oldest known examples of parietal art, potentially created by Neanderthals over 66,000 years ago. In Maltravieso, researchers analyzed samples from multiple panels, including the Galería de la Serpiente and Sala de las Pinturas.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Russellville City school district created De La Rosa’s position in early 2021 as part of a larger effort to help educate its growing population of students who speak English as a second language. Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. Just drawing,” De La Rosa said. Ezzell told me.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 5, 2025

A team led by Iranian archaeologist Nemat Hariri secured permission from the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute to excavate what they could before it was too late. Illegal digging and natural degradation had threatened to erase whatever remained at Kunakhera. “The aim was twofold,” Hariri said.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts. Indirect costs (IDCs) are those administrative expenses a university or other research organization incurs in providing the infrastructure to support a project.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

The program, which turned 60 this year, was earmarked for elimination in Project 2025 the governing playbook by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that is guiding the current administrations cost-cutting policies. There are families that ask, Are you closing? or Should I be worried? Its also proven to be cost-effective.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. Dr. Margarita Alegria is chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As a researcher who spends his days trying to find evidence-based ways to make schools better, I’m at something of a loss. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to “eliminate” and “redistribute the various congressionally approved federal education programs across the government.” I guess we’re doing this (again).

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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

That said, there were some notable actions: Before the pandemic, Trump signed a tax law that increased the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000 per child, although research found higher-income families benefited significantly more from the change than low-income families.

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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. But in the United States, that wasn’t to be.

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