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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

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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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. And many different disciplines must combine to address this world’s needs and challenges.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

While we sat and drank our tinto, a woman told us about her husband who had been murdered, and a man spoke of efforts to create clubs for youth to help them evade the pressures of joining leftist guerillas or right-wing paramilitaries.

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future. Our education system must swiftly adapt to this new reality.

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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