Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. Who should care about a refugee’s language?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Louis, in the spring of 2022. After a fight broke out involving two of her children and other classmates in October 2022, Crawford and her lawyers say all five of her kids were placed on virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

s long history of segregation and racist policies. He knew Montgomery County had a long history of high performance for most students, but not all of them. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Sixty-five percent of Centennial’s students are white.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The administrator had been working to hire more staff with $4,000 Giggles & Wiggles had been receiving monthly since 2022. Combined with a tuition increase, the funds helped raise wages by $2 to about $14 an hour on average in the fall of 2022, but it still wasn’t nearly enough to attract job candidates to the center.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. The district decided to ban him from in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. In the fall of 2022, his senior year, the teenager finally got a dyslexia diagnosis, but by then it was far too late to give him the help he had long craved.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The Higher Learning Commission ordered three years ago that dual-enrollment instructors in the 19 states where it accredits universities and colleges have at least master’s degrees, but Indiana, Minnesota and other states and many colleges have gotten extensions until mid-2022.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. That’s an important step forward for this sector of the workforce.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

You can help us broaden this important work by running a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

The panelists draw on diverse research methods to support their claims, including text analysis, life histories, and differences-in-differences regression. In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. In terms of Covid’s impact, Tyton estimates that if there had been no federal stimulus to date, there would be a state budget decline of 5 percent in fiscal year 2021, and 13 percent in fiscal year 2022.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Now, I can say improve the lives of African Americans, but I’m real clear on the history. Prentiss and Charney spoke to the inaugural cohort of Prentiss Charney Fellows in October of 2022. shared the following quotes and stories about her life. I see my role as improving the lives of poor folks. September, 2019.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Charles Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, a public-school advocacy group. “It Kim Reynolds did in Iowa in 2022, when she endorsed challengers during the primary, helping elect lawmakers who would support her school choice bill. That ain’t Texas,” said Rev.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Preliminary data show that the waivers, which were due to end in 2022, have significantly boosted the diversity of teacher candidates in Mississippi. Normally, when you are looking at history, the voices that are centered are those of landowning white men.”. ” Takeru Nagayoshi, the 2020 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. offer succinct conceptual frameworks in their 2022 book : “The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers in the US: Applications of Asian Critical Race Theory to Resist Marginalization.”[ii] ii] Kim, Jung & Hsieh, Betina, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In fall 2022, after two teachers finally signed on, the group received permission to start the club on campus. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Much of that happened because of one parent, Rachelle Ketron.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

During the 2022-23 school year, the state commission on teacher credentialing only authorized 1,011 new bilingual teachers across all languages. In 2022, the National Resource Center for Asian Languages, based at Cal State Fullerton, got state money to train 200 teachers over five years. Thats not systemic, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

I think a chill wind is blowing, and public education as we know it is in extreme jeopardy of becoming religious education and ceasing to exist, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy organization that has filed an amicus brief in the St. Isidore case. Its about money and power.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A school social worker summarized the encounter: “Discussed students’ attendance history, the impact it has on the student and barriers. Then, in Summer 2022, the school unenrolled her children because their lease had expired. Per mom student lost father in May 2020 and only other barrier is uniforms.” Communities such as St.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Three state ones, of the criminal history, sex offender and child abuse registries. She got to work. Burr and then-Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. Colorado is dropping remedial courses beginning in 2022, and universities and colleges there have already started getting rid of them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

Another poll earlier this year by the Small Business Majority, an advocacy organization with 85,000 members, had similar findings : A third have lost revenue and earnings because of employees’ child care challenges. In 2023, child care cost families $11,582 on average, according to Child Care Aware, a national advocacy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

In the past, said Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of the Hispanic advocacy organization Excelencia in Education, higher education institutions could hit their [enrollment] numbers without engaging this population. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Young voters had “a decisive impact” on Senate races in 2022 in battleground states including Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, which is also based at Tufts. They have also registered and voted at high rates in several swing states.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He described Afghanistan as “a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country and is made up—and I don’t mean this in a derogatory [way]—made up of different tribes who have never, ever, ever gotten along with one another.” withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country’s collapse to the Taliban in 2021.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group. Republican legislators in the state have been pushing for child care deregulation as a solution to child care shortages.

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