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South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

Sapiens

Now interested in this highways history, she explores how this and other roads were used to expand territory and exploit people during South Africas colonial periods under Dutch and British rule, and how they kept people separate during the countrys apartheid government from 1948 to 1994. Nicole van Zyl is a South African lawyer and Ph.D.

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Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

The Hechinger Report

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Witnesses instead work to spread what they refer to as the truth to all humans.

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Your 2-Year-Old is full of potential. Here’s how to develop it

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. This story was produced by Slate magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Amid Child Care Crisis, New Head of NAEYC Pledges to Prioritize Listening and Inclusion

ED Surge

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. What came through in interviews was her human-centered approach. We felt that was ideal for our organization in this moment.”

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. But I guess one of my thoughts is that if you look through human history, the idea of an artist as being a career or a revenue generator, I mean, that’s really the exception.

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What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. The government does not have comparison figures from 2012 to show the precise rate of growth.). Sign up for our newsletter.