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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Students shared emergent understandings of U.S.

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Exploring the Happiness Curve in Diverse Societies: Are Rural Populations Exempt from Midlife Slumps?

Anthropology.net

This curve has been cited widely as evidence of a universal pattern in human well-being. Challenging the Happiness Curve with Cross-Cultural Research A Global Look at Well-Being Gurven and his team analyzed well-being across non-industrialized societies using data from three sources. 1 Gurven, M., Rodriguez, D.

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Educators are Disengaged and Distracted. Better Workplace Culture Could Win Them Back.

ED Surge

One name kept popping up, particularly as I explored employee engagement: Brad Shuck. Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. Employee engagement is just that applied to the workplace. Where do I place my effort and my energy?

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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

ED Surge

Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.

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Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

ED Surge

We are the only school in the region who started a dual language program,” said Rossina Sandoval, Southwest DuBois County School District’s director of community engagement, in an interview with the Daily Yonder. Today, Cruz works as a Hispanic community engagement director for Purdue Extension.

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OPINION: I went from homeless to Harvard, learning lessons that can help others

The Hechinger Report

It denies the humanity of every other child (or parent) who isn’t able to hide their trauma, like I was. We can break the cycle of poverty for every single one of the families and students in our schools — not just a few exceptions — by engaging these families as equal partners in their child’s education.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

ED Surge

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges. A study released by the U.S.