Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. This leads to negative outcomes for communities, including the loss of unique cultural knowledge. Perhaps the best known is Glottolog.

History 135

History Cultures Heritage Government 135

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This diffuse and varied culture inhabited a vast area from Yunnan, China, to Sumatra, Indonesia, from about 40,000 to 2,000 years ago. This site has thankfully been spared from destruction by the regional government when it was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction.

Archaeology 139

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I (Mariam) grew up in a Pakistani diaspora family, where I observed roti-making as an organizing tradition of my home culture, but one that remained a gender-exclusive space for girls, mothers, and aunties. Their cultural commentary on social media often rejects patriarchal expectations about making the perfect round, flaky roti.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. It is first and foremost a school culture issue, which falls on the shoulders of leaders. Did you ever break any school rules that you didn't agree with? The point here is that it is not a technology issue, but many people make it one.

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Pedagogy Classroom Management Leadership Government 418

Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Archiving Artifacts Anthropology Museum 93

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Image credit: [link] It was our desire and quest to create a school culture and learning environments that were more reminiscent of the real world that our learners would soon be a part of that drove change in this area. This is fairly significant as we only have 650 students and 53 staff members.

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High School Professional Development Cultures Education Policy 355

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2015

More often than not, this leadership tactic is put into play to get educators on board with specific mandates and directives that have been pushed down from either the state government or central office. In my opinion, this is the only time when looking for buy-in is appropriate because you really don’t have much of a choice in the matter.

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Leadership Cultures Government Education 343

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With over 1,300 ethnic groups, 700 local languages, and various religious and cultural practices spread across more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia’s cultural diversity is an invaluable treasure. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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Cultures Heritage Tradition Government 98

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 19, 2014

These forces can come in the form of mandates from the federal and state government or broad needs defined by the districts we work in. It is uncommon to leave PD sessions with applicable ideas and strategies that we can implement immediately to positively change school culture.

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Leadership Professional Development Tradition Cultures 356

Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. So for the past year, Ten Brink has been trying the approach, taking a 360-degree camera out in the field to capture key cultural practices. he wondered. How do you put somebody in that space?”

Cultures 122

Cultures Teaching Heritage Government 122

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

A culture that embraces student agency promotes risk-taking while working to remove the fear of failure helps students develop a growth mindset, and has students applying what they have learned in real-world contexts as opposed to just in the classroom. Schools with vibrant learning cultures recognize this fact. I digress.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Do you know what happened?”

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Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. The work is guided by cultural success coaches — school employees who help families address the kind of challenges that keep students from coming to school. AP Photo/Ross D.

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Elementary School Charter School Cultures High School 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

But at the summer camp these students are attending, Native teachers and leaders are leveraging culture-based activities like double ball to engage students more deeply in exploring their Native identities and wellness goals. Culture-based education provides a path to healing.

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Cultures Education K-12 Government 108

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem. They get to know the students, and it builds knowledge and trust.

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High School Library Government Public School 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While other Bronze Age cultures had advanced in terms of population density, specialized labor, and structured hierarchies, northern Arabian towns remained modest, indicating a more gradual cultural and social shift.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Cultures Government Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants are contracted by the federal government to coordinate and determine the number of refugees that a resettlement agency will receive. Lebanon High School. It was new for them.

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Cultures Political Science K-12 High School 109

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Project Title:A Culture of Consensus: Congruence and collective choice among the Tswana Julio S. Sols Arce is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the department of government. His research focuses on the cultural foundations of political and economic development across human societies. Sols Arce, Harvard University Julio S.

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Cultures Political Science Economics Government 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government boarding schools. “If People who are from a different culture, they don’t understand our culture and everything that we have to do, or that we have a different living than they do.” Credit: Nick Oxford/Associated Press “People here, they’re not very open, and they do have their opinions,” Shortman said.

High School 102

High School Charter School History Cultures 102

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture.

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Humanities Psychology Economics Group Identity 90

Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S., sees herself reflected in the parakeets. They may be migrants to the city, she writes, but its quickly become their home.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 It has enabled states to expand access to culturally relevant content, address equity concerns, and enhance students’ digital skills and civic readiness. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Civics Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies 98

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. How would you describe how these culture wars have loomed larger at schools in recent years? Initially it was around critical race theory, and then it expanded to other concerns. So the podcast I created is a place to do that.

Cultures 128

Cultures Elementary School Teaching History 128

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2016

Teachers also worked with students to properly cite resources pulled from the Web, giving proper credit when they saw it was governed by a Creative Commons license. As they published their own work in the form of learning artifacts, they begin to create a positive digital footprint that they could be proud of.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

By applying the Gini coefficient—a widely used metric for measuring inequality—to house sizes, the study created a cross-cultural snapshot of economic disparity over 10,000 years. Governance also played a role. This contradicts the common belief that technological change always benefits elites first.

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Archaeology Economics History Humanities 72

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Like conspiracy theories about aliens building ancient monuments , Hancock’s views carry racist implications— explicitly championed by white supremacists—that Indigenous peoples were not the source of their own cultures, technologies, and monuments. CC These ancient practices in Chaco Canyon are a bridge to Hopi culture today?

Archaeology 145

Archaeology Heritage Government Cultures 145

Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

This examines several factors, such as culture, religion, demographics, media, friends, and family. government critically using their own minds! Government. government is tough with all the opinions students bring to the classroom! Add to cart Government Debates $ 6.00 Teaching about the U.S.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. As originally framed, the Bill of Rights guaranteed immunity only from the actions of the federal government, not the states.

American History 52

American History Government History Cultures 52

TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For the ESL student, developing a presentation about their home country, food, or really anything unique to their culture is a chance for a student to show off what they know. A 30 year veteran in the sector he has written books on edtech, school governance, and school growth.

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Classroom Management EdTech Government Cultures 253

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Importantly, the plan for this sanctuary is that the federal government and Native tribes of this part of California will collaboratively manage the CHNMS to protect the region’s marine ecosystems and cultural heritage. government—not locally by Native peoples. proposed by Indigenous peoples.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

The notification letter asserted that each “grants immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” The claim that NEH’s work endangers the interests of the federal government contradicts abundant evidence of its many contributions.

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