Ancestry High School Humanities 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2020
There’s an ugly history of proponents of eugenics , who believe in reshaping humanity by breeding “superior traits” and removing “inferior traits,” justifying their thinking with genetics. The score could also point to students most likely to stick with advanced math courses across all four years of high school.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2024
million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. Programs must be rooted in values including forgiveness, equality, solidarity and respect for human worth. Nearly 86 percent of Norwegians graduate from high school, and 55 percent earn a college degree.
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Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Grade school had bewildered her. School administrators and teachers never picked up on Livingston’s hearing problem, and she remained in special ed until she graduated from high school. She never expected to teach at all. This was December.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 2, 2024
schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. Sometimes kids found unexpected ancestries – like one white student who found an ancestor labelled “mulatto” on an old Census.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 29, 2020
CASABLANCA, Morocco — I grew up with a Black father of Puerto Rican and Caribbean ancestry and a white mother, in an overwhelmingly white area of Western New York. One of the most dramatic came in high school after the administration told me I couldn’t wear an Afro because it was a “fad.” I am used to standing out.
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Remaining also are the human stories of those harmed by racism. Now comes the AAAs second public education project: Understanding Migration , and another fantastic exhibition called World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. Six talented high schoolers bravely shared their migration stories in powerful spoken word poetry.
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