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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Political Science Now

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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OPINION: Tribal colleges, lifeline to rural and disenfranchised Native communities, need our help more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. Instead, TCUs have been systematically and severely underfunded since their inception.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

ED Surge

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. Another report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education calls for more work to engage states on effective testing and implementation in their schools, and for the federal government to put more detailed guardrails and guidance in place.

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OPINION: We need targeted funding for racial equity in our public schools. California may have some lessons for all of us

The Hechinger Report

Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. And since these inequalities have origins in funding malpractice, to remedy them, the government must use targeted funding for racial equity going forward.

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OPINION: Community policing, college courses and other ways forward for the nation’s largest police force

The Hechinger Report

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. Community policing in Europe has shown that successful partnerships can be made with other social-service agencies, like schools, local government officials, the business community and youth groups. One of us is a retired NYPD detective.

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Quantified Self and Digital Health

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

It has also allowed for new and more fine-grained biopolitical governing and created new “ technologies of the self ” and encouraged particular kinds of “care of the self”. There has been a proliferation of data in recent years due to the use and availability of digital devices in government, commercial and private life.

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.