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. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

Invited to present at the University of London and to deliver a TEDx Talk, titled “Racism in Higher Education”, at the University of Santa Barbara in 2022, she excels at translating complex ideas into accessible and impactful discourse. Loonat is a prolific researcher whose work has garnered international recognition.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. Much of Russia’s economy is based on its oil and gas resources.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

things imaginable,” Rethinking Schools editors wrote in the introduction to Rethinking Elementary Education. We must assess our own knowledge and perspective as educators. Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education leaves Latinos behind. We cannot teach what we do not know. saying “I have a dream.”

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

When not a single teacher objected, the BVHM team brought the idea of hosting a shelter for the school’s families to Ronen, the city supervisor, and the group then pulled in Shamann Walton, a member of the San Francisco Board of Education at the time. If the child is not stable, that’s a barrier to their education,” she said. “So

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education For the past several years, MPSA has been partnering with Wiki Education to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to Political Science. Wiki Education supports faculty at institutions of higher education in the U.S. The results of this partnership are truly astounding.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. Educate colleagues and cisgender students—or even yourself—about the transgender experience.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The boy was admitted, though, and is now in seventh grade; Searle believes he received a wonderful education at school No. In Boston, the dual-language programs significantly under-enroll students with disabilities, partly out of a misconception that learning in two languages isn’t appropriate for many students with special education needs.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration Recipient: Sarah Rozenblum, Cornell University Title: “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” Leonard D.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. Israel’s legislature is currently considering a bill requiring the Council for Higher Education to fire professors who show “support for terrorism,” a coded phrase often interpreted to include criticisms of the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Grove City College, which sued the federal government for linking accepting federal financial aid with following anti-discrimination rules. In the storm over how much money the federal government spends on student aid, and the spiraling amount of federal loan debt graduates face, Hillsdale College is an oasis.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While these trends have been underway in the subfields of global health and economic development for some time, increasingly similar demands are being made for the incorporation of SBS into the fields of democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG). government’s own assessment that global democracy is in a state of decline.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. They carefully planned a way to explain why they wanted to be free and what they believed about human rights.”

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 23, 2024

PoCC has long served as the flagship of NAISs dedication to equity and justice, exemplified by this years theme, Meeting the Moment: Anchoring and Enriching Our Education Futures, a call to educators and leaders to navigate these turbulent times with courage and integrity values that NAIS must now demonstrate through its actions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

Victor Perez had to leave South Carolina to be able to pursue higher education. While South Carolina taxpayers spend roughly $13,200 annually to educate each K-12 student, state policies obstruct one group of students from advancing their education beyond high school. Commission on Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. She’s never been on a education board in a city.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

Another 14,600 unaccompanied minors were in federal custody as of late December , a dramatic increase over previous years, after the government increased scrutiny of adult sponsors, who are often undocumented themselves. They know how important education is.”. (A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The ASDC, established in 1992, is not just an educational institution but a nonprofit organization that provides a whole host of services to deaf Gazans, including vocational training, audiology and speech therapy, community training and awareness-raising programs, and even a restaurant.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Learn More Fight for Life in Cancer Alley New Human Rights Watch Report Human Rights Watch released a devastating new report called, “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone. Download the lesson for free. the environmental impact of this war will not end when the bombs stop falling.”

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, we must help our students make historical explanations for today’s violence. government. This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

From the other: the distant, ugly brown piles of toxic waste left by more than a century of gold-mining, around which huddle townships crowded with poor and less well-educated blacks. educated Habib, who in one high-profile incident was ejected from a church by angry students holding a “peace meeting” he said he was invited to attend.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Even though the majority of Americans are against most of what the GOP supports, this election is not just a choice between bigger government or smaller government or conservatism versus progressivism. Gutting of government ethics enforcement. Cozying up to dictators who commit human rights violations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. Jennifer Rich is executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and an assistant professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Subsequent conversations can focus on media literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

17, 2018 rally at the Federal Courthouse here to demand government action on firearms. They are the families and educators at the forefront of the movement to create, safe, supportive and inclusive school communities. Fort Lauderdale, FL — In the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, protesters attend a Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

That’s the main finding of a new study conducted by YouthTruth , a national nonprofit that conducts student surveys on educational issues. He went on to say, “Part of an education is learning how to deal with mean people.”. Related: Don’t ever conflate disaster recovery with education reform. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In October 1945, Eleanor wrote about women in politics, “they need not function as a minority group unless they allow themselves to be pushed aside … If women want to take part in their local, state, and national governments today, they can do so with complete equality. Hillary obtained the votes. Conference in Beijing.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

NEW YORK — Education and politics are often closely entangled, but in the midst of a pandemic that has claimed more than 200,000 U.S. lives, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has taken politicization to a new level. Related: Distrust of science in the coronavirus era reminds us why we must boost elementary science education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

If we really care about keeping women safe, we need to reform sex education—as well as bathroom signs—to help young people better understand and navigate gender identity: the self-defined and, too often, societal-prescribed state of being a man, woman or other identity on the gender spectrum. All states have some form of sex ed for students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

Before enrolling at schools in Utah this past winter, she and her brothers missed out on roughly two years of regular education while their family sought refuge in the United States. Throughout their journey, Vásquez tried to continue educating her children, teaching them addition, subtraction, vowels, painting, and whatever else she could.

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