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Accountability Drives Growth

A Principal's Reflections

These days, it seems that everyone says they want change. However, the fact is that those asking for it might not be as open to the idea as they want others to think. The number dwindles even more when considering who wants to lead the process. No matter how you slice and dice it, improving outcomes aligned with change relies on the dreaded “A” word – accountability.

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OPINION: Encouraging Black and Latinx students to apply to selective colleges has become more urgent than ever

The Hechinger Report

Those of us who worked with high school students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning race-conscious admissions can’t profess shock over news showing decreases in enrollment among Black and Latinx students across many college campuses, especially those considered competitive for enrollment. We saw this coming. Last year we saw too many highly qualified students shy away from applying to schools because they were sent a message that they wouldn’t get in without affirma

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Feminist Anthropology Today: Thinking about Gendered Binaries, Violence against Women, and the Praxis of Feminist Anthropology

Anthropology News

This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We write these words as a ritual of closure serving as appointed members of the AFA Executive Board. We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.

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Money’s penetration into social life: a historical approach

Perspectives in Anthropology

Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world history, yet we are trapped in a perspective shaped by the daily news in one of its national fragments.

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Natural and Cultural preservation

O-Level Geography

A joint effort by businesses, such as Rolex, with local communities in the preservation of our natural and cultural heritage. What are the efforts made to preserve the natural and cultural heritage in Bali, Indonesia?

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Harvesting of Hemp Plants in Chaplin, Kentucky!

Life and Landscapes

Reggie Van Stockum watching the harvesting of hemp plants for their Cannabidiol (CBD) Oil at a large hemp farm in Chaplin, Kentucky! (click the link or picture below to play my video!

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Exploring the Happiness Curve in Diverse Societies: Are Rural Populations Exempt from Midlife Slumps?

Anthropology.net

The "U-shaped" happiness curve, where happiness levels are high in youth, dip during middle age, and rise again in later years, has been a popular theory in psychology. The theory, derived largely from studies in Western, urbanized societies, suggests that people experience a midlife slump before experiencing a period of renewed contentment in later years.