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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. That’s a big deal. They offset each other.

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition.

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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools.

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These Native tribes are working with schools to boost attendance

The Hechinger Report

government boarding schools. “If Of 34 states with data available for the 2022-2023 school year, Oklahoma was the only one where Native students missed school at lower rates than the state average, according to data collected by The Associated Press. The football team practices on a new field at Watonga High School, Wednesday, Oct.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

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In October, the hard-right Dutch government approved a series of policies intended to severely restrict human migration; the legislation is awaiting approval from parliament. But the relatively welcoming attitude the Netherlands has long held toward border-crossers might be changing. Its unclear what this might mean for Amsterdams parakeets.

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