ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. The absence of a financial reward does not seem to hinder treasure hunting.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Late last year, the White House announced it would put that idea into action, and soon will launch a 10-year plan to revitalize Native languages, under the umbrella of a new initiative to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Native Americans. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

From that dividing line, the American Dream guarantees safety, education, economic stability and outright survival for many Mexican and Central American people. I teach Spanish through a lens of history and justice because, for our students, it’s mind-opening to study Latin America and gain an understanding of its people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks. Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. With over 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Having a mission of “hallways that reflect the city’s streets” doesn’t translate into having a school that is equally divided along racial or socio-economic lines.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That coincided with a growing recognition by privileged families of the economic and career benefits of bilingualism, and a particular interest in affluent communities in studying Spanish and Mandarin. Many communities lack sufficient bilingual educators to meet the desire for dual language.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2024

We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.” We viscerally feel echoes of a violent history surging through this interaction. The long arc of neocolonialism and economic and environmental exploitation hang like the “ fetid air.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The bill, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, would also make more money and regulatory flexibility available to for-profit colleges, many of which have been cited for high costs, low graduation rates and a history of taking advantage of low-income students and military veterans.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

At Western Middle, 60 percent of the roughly 700 students are Black, 11 percent are Hispanic or Latino, and 70 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin. The students Amia was about to meet online were particularly vulnerable. Amia, a St.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. He acknowledges that there are “well-meaning people in the building … teachers and administrators who have the kids’ best interests at heart.” As racial separation in U.S.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. In ignoring this history, she says, They made [a] mockery of us as happy natives. From 1946 to 1958, the U.S.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 22, 2025

Trekking for thousands of hours through these sites, I have seen the destruction of critical remnants of ancient structures, the obliteration of numerous mosaic pavements and subterranean rock-cut features, and the demolition of incalculable layers of cultural history. to the Ottoman-Turkish periods (15161917). Since 1967, approximately 8.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. Tourism provides an economic bedrock for the Havasupai economy, though many families rely on government assistance.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

2) How does one begin a study of environmental history? 3) Yet environmental law does have a history. One can ferret out that history through an examination of discrete time periods, each initiated by some identifiable environmental or political stimulus. Environmental history is often catalyzed by specific issues or events.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He described Afghanistan as “a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country and is made up—and I don’t mean this in a derogatory [way]—made up of different tribes who have never, ever, ever gotten along with one another.” To answer that question, I had to dig into the deeper reasons people joined local militias.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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