This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I have also shown how these representations form part of structures of governing people and bodies by generating “truth claims” and legitimising particular interventions. In this post I will develop these points through a consideration of the impact of genetic technologies on how human bodies and health are understood and managed.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 21, 2024

The Unique Morphology of the Human Skull Base The human species, Homo sapiens , stands apart in the evolutionary tapestry, distinguished by a myriad of anatomical features, including the distinctive shape of the skull base.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Completing the MAHG program, she stepped down from her role as Dean so as to also teach courses in US history and government. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. It governs how federal student loans are distributed, who is eligible for federal financial aid, how loans must be repaid and which institutions can receive federal money.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For Native American Heritage Month, Yarborough decided to introduce her sixth graders to stories, poems and songs that fit the theme, despite them not being approved for use. .' — Melissa Yarborough “By November I was like, ‘I'm done with this,’” Yarborough recalls. They're not learning. I know they can. I was like, ‘This is horrible.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board.

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Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. government supported organization founded to repatriate freeborn and formerly enslaved Black families and individuals.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Orbital Path : Hosted by Dr. Michelle Thaller, it explores the cosmos, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe. All in the Mind Lynn Malcolm hosts this excellent (and award-winning) show that is entirely centered on stories about the human brain, touching on fields like psychology, neurology, and more.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. tourism). a golden jewelry). unprocessed gold fragments).

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

The term Ahnishinahbayeshshikaywin encompasses practices that establish a relationship between places and people; these reflect a belief in souls, spirits, and the existence of human souls through eternity. 3 in 1874 with the Canadian government. Since mountains, rivers, land, plants, and trees are animate, all of these have souls.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

government encouraged farmers to produce more milk that it could send to soldiers overseas. Once the war was over, farmers found themselves with more of the stuff than they knew what to do with — and so the government created programs like the Milk Price Support Program to keep demand from falling. During World War II, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community. States and the federal government could, and should, incentivize districts to open programs where there is the most need, and discourage programs targeted mostly at English speakers.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For centuries, these cloth objects have protected the region’s human and spirit-like beings against illness, death, birth, and seasonal change. An individual constitutes one part of a community of forces, deities, and humans. Offering scarves, too, help build relations with humans and powerful more-than-humans.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

Some say the soldiers in the funeral cortege killed every living thing — human and animal — they came across on their 40-day journey. Pristine and undisturbed for centuries For all that time, the region has remained pristine and undisturbed, its forests, steppes, mountains, and valleys untouched by humans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. The five members of the school board who voted to ban the book did not have children in any public schools governed by the district. “I was actually at home. My superintendent forwarded it to me. for short).

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These efforts led to groundbreaking discoveries about the behavior, ecology, and evolution of the early ancestors of todays living apes, including humans. But like many Rusingans, Siembo had few opportunities to learn about the islands important role in humanitys evolutionary understanding.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. What is more, weapons testing in the regionwhich is ongoing has introduced toxic, and radioactive , materials into local ecosystems, increasing rates of cancer and birth defects in humans and other living organisms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2025

Kirk] Just hours later, the Chinese government warned the more than 270,000 Chinese students already studying in the U.S. House Republicans sent letters to six universities saying America’s student visa system has become a Trojan horse for Beijing, and a lot of Chinese parents worry the U S government doesn’t want their kids.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Is it the human upon which we focus, or the environment wherein we are located? The second involved “Hazardous Substances,” the release of which was to be governed by “The Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act” (CERCLA, 1980, also known as “Superfund”).(16). 8) 42 U.S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Its also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. This process, which maps out the next fiscal year, is separate from the recent vote to fund the government until Sept.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

The program, which turned 60 this year, was earmarked for elimination in Project 2025 the governing playbook by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation that is guiding the current administrations cost-cutting policies. There are families that ask, Are you closing? or Should I be worried? Kennedy Jr.s

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Sapiens

JANUARY 22, 2025

Beyond bombings and other military activities, curfews and checkpoints have severely hindered the efforts of the West Banks Palestinian archaeologists, heritage organizations, and security personnel to access, monitor, and safeguard these vulnerable sites. Demand for valuable objects has long posed a threat to Palestines cultural heritage.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

I think states have now realized, ‘Oh, the federal government temporarily and now is considering again another increase in these tax credits — child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit]. To Chang, child care as an employee benefit could resemble health insurance — or become even more important.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I think states have now realized, ‘Oh, the federal government temporarily and now is considering again another increase in these tax credits — child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit]. To Chang, child care as an employee benefit could resemble health insurance — or become even more important.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Head Start is run by the Department of Health and Human Services, which would be cut by 17 percent. The school leaders were so proud of their new after school program, which included field trips for children to learn about the tribe’s heritage, a book club, a sewing club, and several other after school groups. But what does that mean?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But she promised to work with Congress to do so acknowledging some limits on the presidents authority as Trump seeks to remake the government through executive orders. The federal government is barred by law from setting local curriculum, as Republican Sen. Fund education freedom, not government-run systems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word as “a political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite,” and “the movement organized around this philosophy.” The show is clearly meeting the demand of a large swath of America, but populism it ain’t. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. It’s because they tap into a universal human need for safety, belonging, purpose, and order. The ensuing mindset has allowed U.S.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collectively, state and local governments spend far more on education than the federal government does. Those aren’t part of the Education Department’s job, either; they are managed by the Department of Health and Human Services. The nation’s biggest child care programs for low-income families?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As the pandemic ravaged already beleaguered centers across the country, the federal government stepped in with $24 billion in aid. And once Joe Biden arrived in the White House, it seemed that the government might go even farther by making pandemic relief aid permanent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trump has pledged to rapidly reshape the federal government using executive orders. The impact of those executive orders will depend in part on how the federal government enforces them and in part on how state and local leaders and advocates respond. His nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

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