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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

The Hechinger Report

The program, called the Mental Health Advocacy Institute, is run by a national nonprofit, Active Minds, which advocates for college students mental health. And research shows that even when students know they need help, they dont always seek it. Of the 65 students in the program, just 12 are from community colleges.

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Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Anthropology News

As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.

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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

The Hechinger Report

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.”

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

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. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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Why Healing Affinity Spaces Are Necessary for Black Women Educators

ED Surge

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

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. —