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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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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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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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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.

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PARENT VOICE: My endless quest of trying to get a good education for my immunocompromised child

The Hechinger Report

This one involved finding a kindergarten for Krishna, a stem-cell transplant survivor who suffers from a rare immune disorder and whose main special needis to be kept apart from other humans. The things they can really use — in-home and remote services — have become flashpoints in pandemic resource battles and culture wars.

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.