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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“It’s no longer enough to just be thinking about helping our students across the completion finish line,” said Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer at Strada Education Network, which is helping to fund the project. Courtney McBeth, senior vice president and chief program officer, Strada Education Network.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. That was also the case for Tamara Caselin in her freshman year at UCSC.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It It breaks my heart.” The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. It’s not fair to them — we know that.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2017

Animata Diop completes an assignment in anthropology class. NEW YORK — Aminata Diop, a senior at Broome Street Charter Academy in Lower Manhattan, slipped out of her anthropology class and headed down the school’s spiral staircase, her North Face backpack slung over her shoulder. Photo: Jackie Mader. It’s all under one roof.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. And critically, we partnered with local women activists who promote education and social change to address water insecurity.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). Quality education and life-long learning opportunity for all 5. Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

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JUNE 23, 2024

Orisanmi Burton is assistant professor of anthropology at American University. The post Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt appeared first on Zinn Education Project. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Parents, students, and others are also welcome to participate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I hadn’t had many interactions with white people,” said Carter, now a senior majoring in anthropology and cell biology. “I Colleges, he said, require “people of different viewpoints: religious diversity, urban, rural, economic, public school, private school.”. I wanted to work on that: How do I code switch?

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The scheme aims at planning their socio-economic development in a comprehensive manner while retaining the culture and heritage of the community by adopting habitat development approach and intervening in all spheres of their social and economic life, so that a visible impact is made in improvement of the quality of life of PVTGs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Underneath that veneer of status, though, her extended family battled every cliché you’ve heard about rural life: low education levels, poverty and “an addiction to something.” Brown was accepted at 19 of the 23 schools to which she applied – including most of the marquee names in higher education. Her parents struggled with debt.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. And how can educators and institutions change things? But, since the 1980s, political rhetoric has emphasized the need for less humanities and more STEM education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Department of Education does not track leaves of absence. Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees. Read the series.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Today, such actions are most frequently framed through human rights petitions, letters to government officials, small protests, educational meetings, and accompaniment. What is solidarity?

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Development Anthropology Vs Anthropology of Development Development has been seen as a mechanism of social change which is a) associated with postwar reconstruction of underdeveloped areas of the world, b) a mechanism of domination of south by north, i.e. neo colonialism, and c) something that has a close link with capitalism’s need for new markets.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Conservative politicians today increasingly see social studies teachers as targets, attendees said.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While studying to become a physician, I was one of the lucky few who had the chance to also study human genetic evolution and its impact on health—topics missing from most medical curricula but central to fields such as biological anthropology. These fields understood that racial categories used today in the U.S.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 23, 2024

This article is based on Brooke Bocast’s book, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, which won the 2023 Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) Outstanding Book Award. For decades, Makerere provided rigorous public education to elite men, earning it the nickname “Harvard of Africa.”

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The question of which socio-economic dynamics aggravate and/or hinder treasure hunting has become one of my focal points during my field research in the Trabzon region in northeastern Turkey. The post Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Outside of anthropology, he became known for his popular salvos on work and democracyincluding the breakthrough publication Debt: The First 5,000 Years and his activism within the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. At the time of his death, we were co-editing a book series at Pluto Press called Anthropology, Culture, and Society.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). Joa and Nelson were two students whose multilingualism defied notions of economic success underpinning most English programs in the country.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” Indigenous anthropologist Jenny L.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. Israel’s legislature is currently considering a bill requiring the Council for Higher Education to fire professors who show “support for terrorism,” a coded phrase often interpreted to include criticisms of the state.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

American Anthropologist Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology Rosalyn Negrn, Amber Wutich, H. Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 1995 he received the Conrad Arensberg Award from the American Anthropological Association. He became full professor and departmental chair in anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Boston, in September 1975, later serving as graduate dean. Nicole Gamst) The post Frederick Charles Gamst appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

All members are united in the goals of educating the local community about Rusingas incredible fossil heritage. Among the many anthropological outreach efforts around the worldwhich are typically led from the top down or by cultural outsidersthis homegrown organization is unique. Together, Siembo and Umoja, and Kenyan and U.S.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The limits of collections research and digital access flashed like a neon sign when we first partnered as graduate students for an undergraduate course on museum anthropology and community collaboration. Evoking our role as educators, we reframe the rubric as a problematic to evaluate ourselves and how we care as museum anthropologists.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 30, 2025

candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, my dissertation research brought me there to study how a hydroelectric dam, under construction since 2005, will impact the river and local residents in Assam and the neighboring state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. This blog post explores the critical role of social studies in shaping engaged, informed citizens and how the C3 Framework helps elevate the rigor of social studies education.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Some urban residents and food vendors perceived monkeys as nuisances or pests tied to home ownership or economic livelihood. The post Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care appeared first on Anthropology News. Credit: Kymberly Chu A dusky langur sits on a utility pole.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. There’s a lot more than just getting an education. READ MORE. “As

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, theyre very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors.

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