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MARCH 11, 2025

Through the violent military campaign known as the Conquest of the Desert , the Argentine government gained control over the southern portion of the continent, killing and displacing Indigenous peoples and moving to assimilate the rest through educational and religious initiatives.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the story of how “self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial, Reconstruction era government. Black residents were murdered and thousands were banished.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition, colonial economics created food shortages in Banda and across West Africa. UNITING PASTS AND FUTURES Logan emphasizes that understanding the history of food in West Africa should inform how scholars, humanitarian groups, and governments approach contemporary food insecurity.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When I think of teaching the Early Republic, I think about political parties, presidential decisions, and how those decisions shaped the federal government. This activity ensured that students grasped the economic, political, and social divisions developing between regions of the country. history for decades.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making Analyzes how the IPBES framework can guide policy and decision-making processes in planning and governance. Credit: T. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Oil and gas companies and their affiliated foundations finance climate and energy research, sit on university governance boards and host student-recruitment events on campus, the report notes.

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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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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. Intervening to ensure students have adequate food and housing isn’t just compassionate – it is critical to protecting the financial interests of the government overall.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

It wasn’t until a group of local leaders from across education, business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropic communities came together to identify challenges and collectively design solutions that real pathways toward income mobility began to emerge for the area’s adult learners. Collaborating Organizations. Brighton Center, Kentucky.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

With the latter, preschool programs are vulnerable to changes in governance or an economic downturn. Universal pre-K programs tend to have more staying power when they are paid for by a guaranteed funding stream, such as a tax initiative, versus pulling from a city budget, Weisenfeld notes.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. 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. Thompson, A. Feinman, G.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Drawing on data from over 50,000 ancient homes spread across six continents and 10,000 years of human history, the research team measured the economic disparities of the past through one of its most visible clues: the size of people's houses. “We found no one-size-fits-all explanation,” said co-author Lane M. . Bogaard, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. Later, as a documentary filmmaker, Nilosree met many girls, women, daily wagers, small holding farmers, and homemakers across India who made roti day in and day out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

” Reading Inequality in Clay and Stone Archaeologists often lack direct records of economic systems in ancient societies. Large settlements were often better resourced and more capable of managing complex challenges—irrigation, trade, defense, and governance among them. But the two are not mutually dependent.”

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

To right the ship, families, schools and future employers must work together to prioritize a meaningful investment and evidence-based approach in developing a diverse and technically skilled workforce who can thrive in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. We don't have a lot of state statutes that govern how we do pre-K, Hume said.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance? And what are the consequences if they do not?

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic Instability Has Increased Many families report that it has become more difficult to meet their basic needs, particularly in the areas of health care and housing. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Right now we see a number of extant challenges to some very basic political precepts that we have taken for granted for far too long (for instance, voting rights, the peaceful transfer of government control, and the ability of Congress to actually get anything done, just to name a few).

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Victor Lavy , an Israeli economist who helped design the remedial high school program and who conducted the initial evaluation, used government records to track the students through their early 30s. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The correlation is r = -.68

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 30, 2022

But self-rule did not mean economic independence. The French forced the Haitian government to accept a loan out of which they could pay the reparations. Haiti gained independence from the French in 1804, becoming the first independent black republic in the world. How was Haiti able to pay reparations?

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. He employs a multidisciplinary approach, combining ethnographic methods and experimental economics.

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