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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships.

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How a school that serves mostly homeless kids is matching its district’s graduation rate

The Hechinger Report

Animata Diop completes an assignment in anthropology class. Diop is a senior at Broome Street Academy and takes advantage of the services offered through the school’s nonprofit partner, The Door. Related: Can ‘Sober Highschools keep teenagers off drugs? Related: High school should be more like preschool.

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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

The Hechinger Report

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. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.

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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Ludwig, a 2022 graduate who now teaches Earth Science at Arlington High School about 20 miles from New Paltz, took Varga’s class and worked with her on an honors project to research and install the filters. It’s an invisible problem that not everyone is thinking about,” he said. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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Ivy League degree: Now what?

The Hechinger Report

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace. But Brown liked numbers. She had a 4.0

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25.

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