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Treasuring Indonesian Culture; From Local Practice to State Political Ritual

Anthropology News

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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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. Before his career in higher education, Rogelio worked in the federal government at the U.S. She was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. government as well. And so on… .

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A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

The Hechinger Report

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. A biased criminal justice system forces us to redefine “merit” when it comes to determining who earned or deserves a scholarship. But the state has to give up the cultural practice and business of punishing black people through mass incarceration.

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OPINION: Police reform is useless unless it helps those in prison, too

The Hechinger Report

Seeing a need to balance the scales, in 2016, several members of Monroe’s 70-year-old Hispanic Culture Group, myself included, formed an organization aimed at creating educational opportunities for a demographic that seemed forgotten by everybody else.

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Charter backers can stop the NAACP moratorium — by meeting these four demands

The Hechinger Report

In addition, black folk need schools with hiring practices that attend to diversity, adequate pay as well as curricula and pedagogical practices that are liberatory and culturally relevant. Related: Do black students really need college to get high paying jobs? Are charter supporters suggesting that they are beyond accountability?