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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. I am a poster child for the English major. In my own career, I leveraged what I learned studying English.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

They also said our government was two-faced: Talking about soldiers working together against the common enemy but having segregated quarters for the Black and white soldiers. They were angry that the government took four months to identify and give Miller a medal for being a hero, when white soldiers received recognition right away.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A vast body of research shows that schools and communities can mitigate the effects of poverty by providing support to children and families to address basic needs such as housing instability,” said Pedro Noguera, dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. But it’s something.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Before beginning his Ph.D.,

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

This dissertation sheds new light on our understanding of the costs and benefits of naming and shaming human rights abusers. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Lotem’s research lies at the intersection of international relations, political psychology, and experimental methods.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. 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?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In too many places, admissions processes send a message that dual-language learning is not for everyone (when research shows that actually it is ). We all know the research is counter to that. In 2011, one mother filed a complaint with the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, alleging that Amigos no longer served the Hispanic community.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city. 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.

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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. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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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. But I want them to live.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Due to the ongoing occupation, it is not clear exactly how many deaf schools there are in Gaza, although internet research reveals at least two: the ASDC and the Mustafa Sadiq Rafii school. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

An anthropologist who researches coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians argues such critics need more than free speech protections. As a professor at an Israeli university who leads a research project on coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, I’ve witnessed the threats firsthand.

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Political Science Now

MAY 3, 2024

While at Michigan, she has researched the ratification of human rights treaties with Professor Chris Fariss and developed her knowledge of various quantitative analysis tools including R. After graduation, she plans to complete a Ph.D. See all 2024 RBSI Scholars. Learn more about the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI).

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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. Government funding per student fell 1.1 Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee.

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Sapiens

MARCH 26, 2024

While Israeli media boasted the images depict “Hamas terrorists surrendering in Gaza,” Palestinian and international organizations reacted with horror over the flagrant human rights abuses. Even the United States government, Israel’s main ally and a relentless weapons provider, expressed concern. This is not far from reality.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Research findings leave room for debate about just how bad corporal punishment by teachers is for kids, especially in the United States. And we can say yes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The lack of a promised federal aid package, combined with teacher shortages, is making it difficult for cash-strapped systems that rely for funding on bereft state and local governments to help students catch up, either in person or virtually.

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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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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government. Too often the school curriculum in the United States has told young people — explicitly and implicitly — that some lives matter more than others. military spending.

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