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A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

The Hechinger Report

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. Higher Education. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

The Hechinger Report

The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

The Hechinger Report

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press. It’s just spreading a thin broth thinner.”. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

The Hechinger Report

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers.

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OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

The Hechinger Report

One measure of the health of higher education is total enrollment. million fewer students enrolled in higher-education programs than there were in the fall of 2011. million fewer students enrolled in higher-education programs than there were in the fall of 2011. So what other factors are at work in this educational demise?

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” I am also the kind of person not traditionally welcomed in the academy. I received my Ph.D. Many people in U.S.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.