Sapiens
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. Later, as a documentary filmmaker, Nilosree met many girls, women, daily wagers, small holding farmers, and homemakers across India who made roti day in and day out.
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
JUNE 23, 2020
Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
There are big gaps in both test scores and rates of learning between white and black students in Atlanta, a city where there is a high level of racial and economic segregation of schools. Opportunity Explorer, Stanford Education Data Archive. Here’s a tale of three cities: Atlanta, New York and Detroit.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. This is exactly what we hoped people would do with the data.”
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 20, 2020
And, research has shown economic mobility, achieving higher standards of living than your parents, has declined as inequality in America continues to grow. A majority of us are economically vulnerable. webinar archive]. This year, 2020, has shown with stark clarity the implications of these failures. Related Posts.
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