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

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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. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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

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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. Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia.

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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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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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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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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 dual-language school] as a revolution. 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. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.