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. There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” Harold D. The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” Leonard D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The history of the Amigos School, a dual-language program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that even seemingly minor changes to admissions processes can significantly shape how a school is perceived — and who applies — tilting preference toward privilege.

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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. (A majority of the cases involve a parent — whether in the U.S. The Thompsons came to the U.S. from Jamaica in 2004.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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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. To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Social bullying, which includes deliberately harming someone’s reputation or relationships, according to a government website , followed at 54 percent. Throughout history, athletes who exhibit heroism on the field have joined forces to combat hatred off of it. The study found verbal bullying to be most prevalent, at 73 percent.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. The South African protests began as something else entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my view, this was an “insurrection,” a violent uprising against a government. In 1963, James Baldwin wrote, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Subsequent conversations can focus on media literacy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. government.

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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

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. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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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