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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form. The research used an algorithm to estimate the median BMI of entire governments.

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Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra

The Hechinger Report

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

ED Surge

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

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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

New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023. million who were eligible in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. million in federal and state funds in 2023, the last year that complete data is available. That was the hope.

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Our 10 Most Popular Early Childhood Education Stories of 2023

ED Surge

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. Check out our most-read stories of 2023 below. And they’re looking to produce real solutions, not just research reports.

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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

Sapiens

In 2023, with the museums cooperation, the FBI returned the ivory to Baghdad , 20 years after it had presumably been looted during the U.S. Held by Emory Universitys Carlos Museum since 2006, this carved Nimrud ivory was returned to Iraq in 2023. But then a long overdue book, Ivories From Nimrud Vol. VII , was finally published.

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Ancient Hierakonpolis: The Earliest Evidence of Livestock Horn Modification

Anthropology.net

” How Horn Modification Was Achieved Using advanced analysis, the researchers determined that the horn deformations were not natural. This further underscores their ceremonial importance rather than economic utility. ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R. Antiquity , 97(392), 784-799. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.784