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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Sapiens

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. In Ecuador, this has created a boom that is changing the economic fortunes of many Indigenous Amazonians.

Economics 114
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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

Taking advantage of the event’s popularity, organizers of the Bayou Classic teamed up with Louisiana-based NexusLA, an economic development organization, to host a pitch competition between teams of tech-savvy college entrepreneurs. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

Economics 142
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How Finland’s youngest learners obey the rules — by fooling around in school

The Hechinger Report

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Little to nothing.

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Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education

The Hechinger Report

But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? The main problem is that you can’t randomly assign some students to Montessori schools and study how they do compared with students at traditional schools. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” So he had decided to try his subversive fellowship instead.

Economics 127
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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. Again, is anything ever really new?