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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools. Photo by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge. The problem?

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. He encouraged Black Americans to work as communities to create their own system of producers and consumers to fight against economic discrimination.

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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.

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

In July 2023, SAPIENS put out a call for poems from within “ zones of conflict.” Note: Yarden wrote this poem prior to the Israel-Palestine War that erupted in 2023.) The long arc of neocolonialism and economic and environmental exploitation hang like the “ fetid air.”

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

Sapiens

The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. All members are united in the goals of educating the local community about Rusingas incredible fossil heritage. Others are schoolteachers, university students, and community leaders. Next come the questions.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

The Hechinger Report

It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If He also pointed to a new report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, showing that increases in private school tuition over the last 10 years were smaller in states that passed school choice policies than in those that didn’t.

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Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

Sapiens

The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. By these official military accounts, many islanders appreciate the gifts, even if they dont solve long-standing economic problems. In December 2023, packages dropped by U.S.

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