Anthropology News

APRIL 16, 2024

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Here are some examples of why, after more than a decade of research into their involvement with slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, a handful of universities are beginning to consider reparations: The first slave recorded in Massachusetts was owned by Harvard’s school master. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research shows that teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Legacy admission also appears to be withstanding the resurgence of the racial and social justice movement following the killing of George Floyd. Rachel Fishman, deputy director for research, higher education program, New America. Related: Colleges fight attempts to stop them from withholding transcripts over unpaid bills.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As colleges continue to close or merge — more than 60 in the last five years, and 14 just since the start of the pandemic — a growing chorus of voices is raising alarms that this is taking more than just an emotional and economic toll on students, alumni, employees and communities. We’re not just fighting for Antioch College.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. ” Marina Koestler Ruben is a graduate research assistant at American University’s Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied,” said Tony Jackson, vice president for the Center for Global. Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To It should absolutely not be about only numbers and revenue,” said another, Jocelyn Moylan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

On the surface, the purpose of higher education is to support all students in their growth academically, socially and economically. His words illustrate a major finding of our research. Rather, our research demonstrates that these students feel a sense of exclusion at UW-Madison.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is huge demand for cybersecurity experts, with more than 300,000 high-paying job openings in the last year, according to the market research firm Burning Glass and the technology industry association CompTIA. New programs are often tied to social, demographic and economic trends.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. My class would be in YouTube heaven.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

A cursory reading of the literature on black teachers should have given politicians and reformers pause before forcing their mass exit, and should do so again, but alas, even the research has apparently been devalued. According to 2015 research by Adam C. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

He described “the total pattern of economic exploitation under which Negroes suffer” in northern cities as a “system of internal colonialism” where police and the courts act as “enforcers.” — Jeanne Theoharis in The Atlantic Resources Here are resources about Dr. The Atlantic “ Martin Luther King Jr. The Atlantic.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Advocates for reproductive and birth justice, social-justice approaches to these problems, have helped to spotlight the role of health inequities in our society, says Crystal Tyler, the chief health officer for Rhia Ventures, which invests into birth equity-related companies. So absolutely, all this stuff is related,” she adds.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

To learn more, SAPIENS fellow and anthropologist Marlaina Martin conducted a Zoom interview with Helena Hansen , an anthropologist and addiction psychiatrist who has researched structural racism and drug use and recovery in the U.S. Most active harm reduction organizations are social justice organizations. for a decade.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. Research shows that Americans’ attitudes toward language instruction may be holding them back.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Service is key, so projects often involve themes of social justice and community improvement. A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. Rocio Inclan , senior director, National Education Association Center for Racial and Social Justice It’s an honor to join you, and to speak on behalf of the National Education Associations’ 3 million members.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Schools are complicit with other societal institutions when it comes to individuals’ economic malaise and the inadequate preparation of our workforce. Our dogged perpetuation of low-level learning environments helps foster economic insecurity and political revolts. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

It is the very essence of white privilege that would lead Loeb to think wealth best positions him to critique Buery’s more than two decades of social-justice work on behalf of black and brown families. Many whites with fierce commitment to social justice lead the organizations I’ve named, and others. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We talked about the economic impact of slavery to go from being money to trying to catch up with everyone else, who was given that opportunity of reaching this ‘American dream,’ and having 300-400 years of being someone else’s money.” Blacks were just slaves. And Lincoln freed you,” she said. “It

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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. All are groups that researchers worry will bear the fallout of disrupted learning during the pandemic. The students Amia was about to meet online were particularly vulnerable.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A a professor of economics and management at Albion College who has studied the Antioch story. A hippy school,” its own students, alumni and faculty call it fondly. Vicki Baker.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Some research suggests that the number of black-led schools has been in decline since its peak in the 1990s. My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. But that may not tell the whole story, Teasley says. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Global Change Research Program, with input from agencies including the State Department, NASA and the Department of Transportation, released a document called “Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change.” Not just the science, but social justice.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I’m not going to go through specific details because I would advise you all to do your own research. I’m not going to stop doing science communication or putting my face and name out there, doing what I do for climate justice, social justice, decolonising work, and science communication. No, I’m not.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

So when they heard about a week-long program in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills that would teach them about the Civil Rights Movement of the past and how it connects to the social justice struggle of today, they were eager to attend. They don’t get much of [the state’s civil rights history] in schools,” she said.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education. Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” Rethinking Schools : Teach Palestine. military spending.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. When her English professor assigned a research paper, “the writing lab was my best friend,” she said. Holmes senior Justice Grisby completes a review sheet on factors of production in her economics class.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education. Outside of her education initiatives, Prentiss addressed economic issues after the Republican-led senate refused to put a bill on the floor to raise the minimum wage.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Her research interests focus on racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. Her research explores the causes and consequences of political violence and repression, warfare dynamics, nationalism, and transitional justice after conflict. She also serves as Provost of Earl Warren College.

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