Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this context, President Jokowi’s embodiment of Indonesian identity is intertwined with the populist politics that underlie his leadership. This superficial cultural display meant to garner and maintain popularity often obscures the genuine political issues faced by indigenous communities, such as displacement and social injustice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

“Betsy DeVos has been a total disaster for students’ civil rights for four years as Education Secretary and gets no credit now for resigning 13 days before inauguration,” The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition, said in a tweet.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. I felt like I was facing this consequence because I was vocal.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The group argues on its website that “all too often words such as diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, systemic racism, human rights education and health education concealed an aggressive, radical totalitarian ideology.”. We need to be very careful about what kind of materials are being provided to your children.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

former Secretary of Education; Wade Henderson, former president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and Fail State’s director, Alex Shebanow. Leave this field empty if you're human: Waters is featured in the documentary as someone who has long fought for tighter regulations of these institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This week, a group of civil and human rights activists called for targeted education funding as well, for both safe reopenings and to ensure that all students benefit equally. The post COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It was always perplexing to me to see the disparity between our society’s low expectations of women and my experience of the leadership shown by these two women, my role models. Women’s rights are human rights: That was Eleanor’s view before the slogan became associated with Hillary Clinton, from her speech at the 1995 U.N.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Liz King, who leads the education program for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, one of the counter-event’s sponsors, said Moms for Liberty is boxing people out rather than being inclusive. Even parents of transgender youth, she said, admit “they didn’t know how to handle it. Well, we are all learning.

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