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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Borneo’s Unique Biocultural Heritage Borneo, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, is home to countless endemic plant and animal species. Source: Ambio, 2022. Credit: T. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. Children read outside at Heritage Park Child Care Centre.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021. We talked with educators who immigrated as children to the U.S.,

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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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College advisers vow to ‘kick the door open’ for Black and Hispanic students despite affirmative action ruling 

The Hechinger Report

Harvard, highly selective colleges served as a beacon of hope and economic mobility for students like those TeenSHARP advise. Hamza decided to revise his essay from one focused on linguistics to describe experiencing racism and then embracing his Muslim heritage. “I Before the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. It had an A rating from the state in 2022. Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. They're not learning. I know they can.

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Accounting Streams takes inspiration from CORE Econ’s pioneering introductory textbook

CORE Econ

CORE inspiration We felt that this situation presented some parallels to economics education, where CORE had successfully established a change agenda. ‘Accounting as Technical, Social, and Moral Practice: The Monetary Valuation of Public Cultural, Heritage and Scientific Collections in Financial Reports.’ Carnegie, P.