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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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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.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Archival newsreel sound] There were a group of congressmen with long memories who were in the last war. And if they’re not accepted, they’ll end up on the wrong side of this country’s economic divide. And how did the whole process become so anxiety-inducing? Kirk] Well, Jon, it wasn’t always this way.

Archiving 98

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Angela Jenks guided medical anthropology students through an analysis of direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) medical apps like Symptomate and DermAssist, teaching them to analyze this emerging technology while situating these apps in their historical, social, and economic contexts.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Doreen's unpublished archive is held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) I saw this earlier via Threads (find me there @geo_blogs - I've stopped using Twitter). An exciting opportunity to move towards a PhD by exploring the Doreen Massey archive. Via my At the Home of Geography blog.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. In 1933, he was elected president of the American Economics Association. Ripley popularized the saying, “Africa starts at the Pyrenees.”

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in 1964.

American History 98

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

Sociology 51

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Constitution Political Cartoon activity from the National Archives This fun activity has students connect sections of the Constitution to specific political cartoons from the early to mid 20th century. Prohibition and its Unintended Consequences from the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics There are several key moments from U.S.

Primary Sources 52

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The selection committee was impressed by Owolabi’s skillful use of multiple methodological tools including large-scale statistical analysis and comparative historical analysis based on extensive original archival research across multiple continents.

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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

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.

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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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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

I wanted them to connect the current economic struggles of people of color by staying alert to these dynamics from the past. Archival photographs and maps recreate a 3-D historic neighborhood that we can only scroll through today. History Sadly, the Tulsa Massacre was not a rare event.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Upon entering the collection, you are presented with five tabs near the top of the page covering Growth, Peoples, Economics, Ideas, and American. State Archives!! : Let me say that again, State Archives!! I am linking in the National Archives list of State Archives. Access to state archives is extremely useful.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. By 1970, just 24 white students were enrolled in Holmes County public schools, according to an archived report. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. Though it will be challenging, Rayome said, Lincoln County will adapt to a new economic future.

Economics 124

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. In his final news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama said that the entire economy could be affected if people of all backgrounds are now supported.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Three years earlier, she had traveled to Baltimore to start a new life, joining thousands of Black Americans who left the South in pursuit of better economic opportunities in the mid-twentieth century. Credit: Nikada/iStock (184617058) Files in a archive. emphasis added) Johnnie Mae Warren was much harder to uncover in the archive.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Sarah Igo: What that means is I study the history of ideas rather than, say, public policy or economic development or wars or that kind of thing. Kirk: Intellectual historian? What does that mean?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Read more from the SAPIENS archives: Do Things Have to Be This Way? We are both sociocultural anthropologists, like Graeber, broadly concerned with understanding how structures of economic inequality and power play out in peoples everyday lives. But we both met Graeber before he became so well known.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. There are also countless historic sites that are unmarked such as a freeway that destroyed a neighborhood or a university building funded by enslaved labor.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

To Americans, the war brought risk, loss and sacrifice, but did not diminish expectations for economic growth and social and political reforms. Food Administration, National Archives and Record Administration (National Archives identifier: 20762195). Many grew pessimistic about modern “progress.”

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Anthropology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Lessons on Race, the Supreme Court, and the Legacy of Franz Boas Credit: National Archives at San Francisco Hin Lun Jow, Certificate of Identity 43195, issued after he entered the U.S., They exploited a unique economic niche created by the Jim Crow segregation laws that prevented grocers from serving both white and black customers.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: Examples of (indigenous) women resisting, manipulating, negotiating or creatively reinterpreting normative cultural categories and practices (gender related or otherwise) Examples of ancient women code-switching and acting as cultural negotiators in colonial contexts, contributing to the creation (..)

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. Karen Brink-Noonan Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Valatie, New York I have used the Thingamabob Game in both my economics class and my U.S. At the conclusion of the game, we hold a discussion on how the game went.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

When we learned care in anthropological classrooms, we were trained in close looking, accessing archival records, and appreciating converging histories of disciplines and institutions. Beyond the economic value, collectors valued acquiring specimens for the advancement of scientific teaching collections and early public displays.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

By these official military accounts, many islanders appreciate the gifts, even if they dont solve long-standing economic problems. This concept, developed by theater scholar James Thompson , suggests that some nominally humanitarian missions are a mix of iconic images, compassion economics, and high drama. taxpayers feel good.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 30, 2025

They, like most downstream residents, belong to one of several socio-economically marginalized groups , which the Indian government designates as Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes. Read on, from the SAPIENS archives: The Struggles of a River People in Assam.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In this article, I explore this history and the series of political and economic processes that have made bedsiding in Zambia into what it is today. Through archival research at the Melville J. Bedsiders, I will show, keep afloat under-staffed and under-resourced hospitals.

Anthropology 52

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ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

These stories are weaved together through the use of archival footage and nearly constant jazz music. The connections here are clear: the US always has and always will use the threat of its military and economic power to influence other states that do not aid in its interests. Theres a constant tension to this story.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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