Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. In October, the hard-right Dutch government approved a series of policies intended to severely restrict human migration; the legislation is awaiting approval from parliament.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. See a sample itinerary here. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Luckily, she had the funding to make this possible, with government contributions coming from sources like NASA in addition to substantial support from philanthropic foundations like the Overdeck Family Foundation. A child enjoys free time at the Museum School after-school program in Greenville, South Carolina.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Other times students went on field trips to museums where art educators explained paintings and sculptures. And that’s what we found,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, and the other co-author of the study.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. But what about the materials that dont make the cut?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

With emergency child care options varying so much across the country, many parents who work in healthcare do not have access to a government-run child care program for essential workers. Museum Mile was near their new home. “ Presley started at Museum Mile on Monday, March 30. The Parrises decided to sign up.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The federal government, NIH, NSF and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine should work proactively with local governments and school districts to fund chemistry, biology and other age-appropriate science kits to provide at-home engagement. At the same time, ancillary initiatives may be beneficial.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

The news that the United States government was declaring enslaved people in areas still in rebellion against the nation forever free was incredibly important to the enslaved and the country, but what mattered more than that news was the power and will to enforce it. That’s another one of many examples.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not entirely agree.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Successful networks also include robust participation from state and local government and a range of community groups.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is true when it comes to structured after-school and summer learning programs, and it is true when it comes to “free choice” learning experiences, like visits to museums or science centers. We must provide ongoing support for students of color through college and career. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

An artist’s impression of a Neanderthal family on display at the Neanderthal Museum in Croatia. These included abnormalities in the semicircular canals, which govern balance and sense of head position, and a reduction in the size of the cochlea, which is involved in hearing.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. He succeeded African Americans Ralph Bunche and Lucius Barker as president. He served as an endowed chair at the University of Virginia. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. A score of less than 1.5 Rowan University in New Jersey was loaned $26.4

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. Try playing a quick round of Mystery Skype with your classroom as a first experience with a virtual exchange.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These include the Khan Academy, with its free online learning and AI-empowered tutoring ; Outschool , which lets students choose online discussion-based classes; and Remake Learning , which provides a model for connecting the learning that takes place in museums, after-school programs, camps and civic organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. The think tank the Urban Institute found that local governments receive around 30 percent of their funding from property taxes , a combined sum of $473 billion across all U.S. localities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches. It breaks my heart.”

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

The study, based on financial data provided by colleges and universities themselves to the federal government, found that 64 cents was spent on administration at the smallest private colleges for every 36 cents spent on instruction. WHY IT MATTERS: New report suggests administrative costs at some campuses exceeds academic ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Still, trying to be a student away from school was disorienting, said VanderWilden, who is double majoring in physics and government. Having another government major there also working on a thesis “pushed me to get on track,” he said, adding that “being in an environment where other people are working is helpful to stay motivated.”.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 31, 2023

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum for this teacher workshop that will provide resources for exploring how the development of a government "safety net" to protect Americans devastated by the Great Depression affected civic life. FDR having lunch while visiting Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, Co.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. But she deliberately avoids calling the space a museum, because she doesn’t want visitors to be rooted in the past.

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Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to learn how citizens and government officials used the tools of democracy to challenge racial discrimination in voting. Addressing Racial Discrimination in Voting During the Kennedy Administration Katie Munn Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:38 Body Investigate primary source material from the John F.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Families had weathered a series of blows: decades of government disinvestment; the vanishing of businesses along the commercial corridor in the wake of the Columbia Avenue uprisings of the civil rights era; the exodus of working- and middle-class residents; and the ushering in of drugs and gun violence and tough-on-crime laws.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Frank Gehry, who turned 94 on Tuesday, designed some of the most famous buildings in the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Summer RISE (Reimagining an Innovative Student Experience) is an initiative led by the MCPS’s Department of Partnerships in collaboration with businesses, government agencies, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional. Unfortunately, she was also Hawaii’s last sovereign ruler. In 1944, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Public Schools, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and Arizona State University will collaborate to design new approaches to active STEM learning for young children and their teachers. In support of this vision, as one example, this year a group of 100Kin10 partners including D.C. Cast a wide net. We must rise to that challenge.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Pittsburgh teens in front of the Chinese Art Museum. The Chinese government, in an effort to show us the best of what China has to offer and bring us closer to our culture, paid for 300 students, ages 12 to 18 and living all around the world, to attend an all-expenses paid camp there. Photo: by Tonji University students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s an unincorporated, census-designated place — large enough to have its own name, but not to have its own government. An aging portable classroom will become a mini science museum, filled with hands-on activities for kids. ‘Whatever happens has to happen because of the people’. Onalaska technically isn’t a town at all.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

How are the masses best governed? Carthage students visited the local Civil War museum to connect theory with history, while Columbia asks participants to spend their senior year of high school working on a civic leadership project. Conceiving of college as digging into these big issues can be quite powerful.”.

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