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MAY 8, 2025

According to a new synthesis of archaeological, historical, and economic data published in the Journal of Economic Literature 1 , that change wasn’t just about economics. At the same time, the cultural embrace of hierarchy and individualism began to replace long-held norms of communal sharing and economic leveling.

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MAY 7, 2025

As an archaeologist who teaches at Emory and conducts research in Iraq, I have grappled over these questions and decided yes: Learning with and from these objects can help amend their problematic acquisitionso long as that recent history pervades the lesson. We should hire more provenance researchers. militarys invasion of Iraq?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. This one was real life.”

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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

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border.

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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. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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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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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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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. where I teach.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. That was the hope.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. ” Measuring Inequality in Mudbrick and Stone The researchers turned to one of the most consistent archaeological indicators of wealth: house size. Governance also played a role.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

Measuring Up Successful universal preschool initiatives typically share a few common characteristics, says GG Weisenfeld, associate director of technical assistance at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), where she works with cities and states to design and implement pre-K systems.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. The federal government, through the U.S. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This Research Group will bring together scholars interested in exploring political economys evolving body of knowledge and practices from the early-modern period through the present. Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop here. View all research group workshop descriptions on the 2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting website.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G. Peterson, C.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 25, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Yet elections are also common under authoritarianism, and research suggests that they may in fact further entrench authoritarian regimes.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

Led by Professor Dan Lawrence of Durham University, the research asks a thorny question: Is inequality the price of sustainability? ” Reading Inequality in Clay and Stone Archaeologists often lack direct records of economic systems in ancient societies. The researchers are careful to avoid deterministic interpretations.

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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. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.). The teens who participated even had higher marriage rates.

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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. Mike DeWine, thousands of new children and families have enrolled in licensed child care across the state.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many factors can cause colleges to struggle financially, according to a review of the data and interviews with 39 college finance researchers, student advocates, state officials, school administrators and faculty members.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. It was the Department of Agriculture. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. 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?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

It’s well-known that women have been especially impacted by pandemic-related economic upheaval. Research has found that emotional distress from job loss does not necessarily impact a parent’s capacity to be a responsive caregiver, particularly if the government steps in with financial assistance to help make up the gap.

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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. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Once I decided to try to earn my associate degree by the time I graduate, I had to be realistic and forgo extracurriculars like my student government position, so that I could make time to succeed in my college courses. More transparency about whats realistic would have been helpful.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity. Research suggests that test-optional or test-free admissions can be one tool in a broader set of reforms.

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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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