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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. The federal government tracks only the total number of bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs, not the subjects they cover. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.

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Putting Language to Work in the Dominican Republic 

Anthropology News

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. Charles Parish outside New Orleans began talent development in 2012. The federal government does not supplement local funding for gifted programs as it does for special education.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. The third-generation Japanese American congresswoman was a trailblazer who advocated for women’s rights, civil rights, education, and social justice. In 1944, the U.S.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings. His scholarship focused on the study of government, politics, and political actors, with an emphasis on their origins, foundations, and interactions with groups and individuals.

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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. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.

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Segregation in Steel Valley: How these Pittsburgh-area elementary students are separated by race and academic performance

The Hechinger Report

We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. It was reprinte with permission. One school enrolls mostly black students.