The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

In addition, museums, recreation centers, libraries and other places that offer alternatives to schooling will also be closed, as they have been in Seattle and other parts of the country hit hard by the virus. Some 70 percent of the city’s 1.1 million students come from low-income families, and thousands are homeless.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have linked health inequalities to non-biological factors—the so-called social determinates of health —including health care, education, economic stability, and environmental exposures. Four months later, Serena gave birth to her first child.

Ancestry 144

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Cultures Anthropology Heritage 130

Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. and other colonized lands, racism has influenced people’s access to nutritious food, education, economic opportunities, health care, safety, and more.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

Dr. Mary Coleman is the former SVP and COO, Economic Mobility Pathways, Boston, Massachusetts (retired).Former Matthew Holden Jr.s life was a testament to the power of ideas and the enduring impact of a life dedicated to truth and justice. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr. 653 – 657 The Matthew Holden, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics. Lack of background knowledge amplifies the academic gap between rich and poor kids.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade. The reason we haven’t made the leap is because of some substantial hurdles.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. It breaks my heart.”

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Museum Anthropology Teaching Economics 144

Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2024

Archaeologists from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence , in collaboration with partners from Serbian museums, have unearthed a remarkable discovery: a previously unknown Late Neolithic settlement nestled near the Tamiš River in Northeast Serbia. The deep black angular anomalies indicate a large number of burnt houses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Amanuel Gebru, board president, A2MEND Boys and men in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to focus more on other things than college, said Vaughn Smith Jr., At Berea, the Appalachian program has held dinners and organized road trips to baseball games and museums, with varying levels of success.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. What good is a city flush with national monuments and museums if students across town can’t access it without hopping on a bus and switching to a train to reach it? Students don’t live in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

a family with two school-age children can expect to pay an average $2,597 per month for child care, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute. Botanic Garden to field trips to Smithsonian museums and other spots. Consider that in D.C., Summer camps can also pose a significant financial burden.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Exhibits in the Museum of Fine Arts allow student painters to display their work. I want to make sure I keep music with me my whole life.”. Public displays of student learning are also natural in arts classrooms. Student musicians perform for the community throughout the year.

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High School Museum Economics Tradition 71

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. An aging portable classroom will become a mini science museum, filled with hands-on activities for kids. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

Exhibits describe the development of the Dyess colony & other planned housing developments throughout the state as a part of a New Deal economic recovery project. The museum has a variety of additional resources for K-12 educators as well.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He encouraged Black Americans to work as communities to create their own system of producers and consumers to fight against economic discrimination. The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. When she attended a competitive public high school, she learned just how economically disadvantaged her family was. “I I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m poor.’”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

There is a combination of a moral imperative and an economic imperative,” said Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada, the principal association of Canadian universities. An economic imperative worth $90 billion in Saskatchewan alone, according to the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Furthering access meant not only overcoming geographic and socio-economic barriers to information access, but also leveraging the ways digital resources could reach individuals with disabilities. As noted by Judge Harold Baer in the 2012 lower court decision in the Authors Guild, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. Michael Elsen-Rooney/The Teacher Project. Home-based operators help teach about 1.5

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial. For Facebook, check out this example from D.C.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc. This topic allows students to investigate the history, geographic, economic, and the civil effects on the world in the attacks aftermath.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

I started with browsing an exhaustive amount of websites, academic journals, blog posts, digital museum tours, primary sources etc. This topic allows students to investigate the history, geographic, economic, and the civil effects on the world in the attacks aftermath.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Social Studies Artifacts Museum 40

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. The group can be any size. Every voice and action counts! Select your activity.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

During the pandemic the public teaching workforce appears to have shrunk by nearly 7 percent, according to federal jobs data crunched by the Economic Policy Institute. The fear that burnout will contribute to a mass exodus of teachers isn’t overblown—but it isn’t supported by enough data yet. Others want a fresh start.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. Their endowment holdings alone add up to nearly half a trillion dollars and they have an annual economic impact of $1 trillion and employ nearly 4 million people, the Progressive Policy Institute reports. A growing number are diverting a little of that wealth to their communities.

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Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 79

Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2024

Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks too. These indicators of differential gendered social status do not arrive until agriculture, with its stratified economic system and monopolizable resources.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Anthropology Humanities Museum 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The plan was to make it a museum that focuses on the history of Black Americans’ struggles both during and after enslavement. Karen Brink-Noonan Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Valatie, New York I have used the Thingamabob Game in both my economics class and my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But as Columbia has expanded its footprint, it has also become more of a drain on the city budget because of a state law more than 200 years old that allows universities, museums and other nonprofits to pay almost no property taxes. The law saves Columbia more than $182 million annually, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2019

It’s crucial that we understand its inner workings and aftereffects; only then can we create a moral, economic and social roadmap to achieving our democratic ideals. In the apartheid museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, patrons are randomly sorted into the white or non-white entrance lines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The exemptions — which apply to universities, museums and other nonprofits — are nearly 200 years old and part of the state constitution. If you’re talking about the city making a commitment to economic equity and social mobility,” Mr. Davis added, “there really is not a wiser investment than CUNY.”

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K-12 Museum Economics Library 124

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Next she handed out VR headsets and asked her students to grab their cellphones and head to her Google classroom, where posted three different experiences that showcase Afrofuturism: an Afrofuturism art museum, a short VR film and a musical performance.

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