The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. But Brown liked numbers. She had a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Such changes are primarily occurring not at selective private or public flagship universities, but on campuses that largely serve low-income students who often come from poorly resourced public high schools or whose parents never finished college, threatening to further widen the quality divide between the educations rich and poor Americans receive.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches. Kerim was a man in his early thirties, a high school graduate working as a tradesman in construction.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 18, 2024

(1928–2023) Oswald Werner, who was with the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University for over 30 years, died at the age of 95 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 26, 2023. While running his own photography studio in Syracuse, Ossy began reading anthropology and linguistics books while developing photographic negatives.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

She was the object of many people’s affections, remembered as a Christian woman who sang in the junior choir and served as secretary for the choir and Sunday school. She graduated from Finley Senior High School and attended Barber-Scotia College in Concord, North Carolina. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Nine-year-old Martha Lum , a Mississippi-born child of Chinese immigrants, was denied admission to the new Rosedale Consolidated High School despite having attended the white public school the previous year. president in the 2020s. A year later, his father, Tsee Fung Jow, sued on his sons behalf. But it did not define colored.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In my first Presidents Column for Anthropology News , I described World on the Move , still in its incubation stage: Building on AAAs past achievements andlooking to the future, I expect to helpbringanthropology more fully into the public conversation about critical local and global social issues and policy debates. Born with our own culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Maughn/Flickr?.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In taking her language acquisition seriously, Salva explains how she and her sister began practicing their Spanish with one another, coworkers, grandparents, and by enrolling in Spanish classes throughout high school. The post On Language, Belonging and Being a #NoSaboKid appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Da-In, a 28-year-old woman working at a small company and living with her mother, offered one such example.She had been writing fantasy novels since high school, a practice she began after experiencing her first suicidal thoughts at 11 and attempting suicide at 14.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Students have long picked schools based on their academic reputations and social life. But with campuses in the crosshairs of the culture wars, many students are now also taking stock of attacks on diversity, course content, and speech and speakers from both ends of the political spectrum. Use our tool to find out.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I learned about local organizations that support migrants, and I became a volunteer tutor for high school immigrants and refugees in Oakland, California, through a nonprofit organization that supports refugee and immigrant youth. Tricia Niesz is the section contributing editor for the Council on Anthropology and Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

In a divisive political climate, public schools are taking on the challenge of helping refugees who feel unsafe in a country that seems increasingly intolerant of them. They then moved north to the Lewiston-Auburn area, where housing is cheaper, said Elizabeth Eames, a Bates College associate professor of anthropology.

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