Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students. Kids should want to come to school and learn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. For science class, they head to a museum. That is a huge problem.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to Britannica, Du Bois published 16 research monographs and the first-ever case study of a U.S. Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. Black community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

schools frequently marginalize these students’ languages and cultures, but they tend to host ineffective educational approaches. Meanwhile, research suggests that , for English learners, English-only instruction is not as successful as bilingual models like dual-language immersion. Not only do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. in rhetoric and composition but has largely focused her research on the experiences of women veterans. “We

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Congress, foundations, funders, and other associations in the U.S. To Apply Applicants should submit a 1-2 page letter of interest describing why you are interested in the position as well as how your previous experience connects with the job responsibilities and qualifications as well as a resume or curriculum vitae.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It’s not enough for a school to simply offer these students computer science classes — teachers like Noriega are working to tear down the invisible mental and cultural barriers that keep Latino students from considering the field altogether.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Our languages are quickly becoming in danger of being lost,” Around Him says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

They also lack the self-advocacy skills necessary to navigate their new environments. Research also shows that institutions that help students gain a sense of belonging to a community and help them access support systems to navigate the college experience will see improved persistence, graduation and overall success in college and afterward.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. I am a poster child for the English major.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. Academic spaces are very much about what they can take from community, as seen in extractive research models, instead of what it can give back or create as community. Are they scholar-activists?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In California, nearly two-thirds of Black students who go to college start at a community college, but nearly half quit without receiving any credential, according to a study by The RP Group, a nonprofit research organization.

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High School Economics Advocacy Research 145

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

With EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network , we piloted a model for healing affinity spaces centering Black women’s healing while being in community with one another. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The lack of cultural competence and consideration affects black students disproportionately — hence, the severity of racial disparities surrounding certain issues, such as the school-to-prison pipeline. Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Research repeatedly indicates that schools and students with access to high quality music education perform better in a multitude of academic, social and emotional ways. Cultural and social relevance. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. This has been a nice shift in focus for us.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

After spending over two decades working to advance racial equity in education through advocacy and philanthropy, I took a new job last year that has allowed me to see this work from the inside out. My organization works closely with school staff to change the cultures of schools so that they are supporting achievement, not just demanding it.

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Cultures Advocacy Public School Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. And they’ll all be hurtling toward college age.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

I’m not opposed to civic action, but we can’t let the cart get ahead of the horse,” said David Davenport, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. “In In science, you don’t run around doing a bunch of experiments — you start with knowledge and develop a hypothesis first.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

This is critical because in addition to improving student well-being, research shows that when students feel represented in school and learn about the experiences and stories of people who look like them, academic performance and attendance rise. In fact, diverse representation and multicultural awareness benefits all students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement. There’s not as much research on math disorders or dyscalculia,” as there is on reading disabilities, said Karen Wilson, a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of children with learning differences.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 134

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Our new report, Computational Thinking for a Computational World , draws from research and interviews with leaders around the country to answer the essential question: In a computational world, what is important to know and know how to do? We see these practices of computational thinking benefitting cutting-edge research and everyday life.

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K-12 Education Advocacy Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Women’s share of construction trades jobs increased from about 3 percent to 4 percent over the past five or so years, according to Ariane Hegewisch, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Credit: Sarah Garland.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

And research by the Education Data Initiative shows Native students borrow more and pay more per month in student loan debt than their white peers. Perrantes now works as a program manager for Mother Nation , a Seattle-based nonprofit that focuses on cultural services, advocacy, mentorship and homeless prevention for Native women.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Recent research suggests that, by 2, toddlers can begin to reveal signs of autism: an absence of big smiles or, as in Jonathan’s case, an abrupt loss of speech and a lack of interactive gestures. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted.

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Advocacy Cultures Elementary School Research 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization. We become the representative for all of those children.”.

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 28, 2023

Sometimes people pick up these ideas from things they see on social media, blogs, podcasts, and then continue it as their unique contribution knowing full well it isn't and the more social and cultural capital that person has in particular spaces the easier it is to erase the real innovator.

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Pedagogy Advocacy Cultures Research 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. Yet, the percentage of Latino college students between the ages of 18 and 24 rose from 21.7 percent in 2000 to 39.2

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. The uniformity and scale of the state logging — and the prioritization of profit and yield — do not align with the tribes’ forestry plans, which are tied to cultural values and use of land, Incashola said. Tony Incashola Jr.,

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Government Public School K-12 Cultures 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Flagship universities are the jewels in the crown of public higher education systems — they have sought-after faculty, preeminent research facilities, the most resources and often the highest graduation rates, for all races. Related: New research shows Latinos closing the racial gap on college degrees, but still lagging far behind whites.

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Advocacy High School Cultures Leadership 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. Sidebar: Personalizing school culture with ‘preceptors’. I’m probably going to learn more.”.

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