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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Meng So, director of the undocumented-student resource center at UC Berkeley since it became the first in the nation in 2012, said he’s gotten dozens of how-to inquiries from other schools.

Sociology 109
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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Today its relationship with the union is limited to having one union official on the school governing board.)

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.”

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It That to me is how you fully reconcile,” said McNeil, a member of the university’s student government who was born in Grenada, Mississippi.

History 89
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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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HBCUs open their doors wider to international students

The Hechinger Report

In addition to the tuition money they often bring — many foreign students pay the full sticker price, often aided by their home countries’ governments — there are benefits for the HBCUs’ American students. The influx of foreign students to HBCUs includes a large number from the Middle East, thanks in part to government-funded scholarships.

Cultures 111