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

The Hechinger Report

Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance. But, increasingly, schools that serve high populations of minority students, such as PUC Schools, are taking note of the research showing that the race of teachers matters and have begun to prioritize diversity along with that top quality.

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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. Stanford University research that shows that the black incarceration rate is five times the rate of whites, and one in every black child has a parent incarcerated compared to one in every 60 white kids. Related: Who benefits from research on racial disparities?

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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.” and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship. I received my Ph.D.

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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. Extensive research shows that is not right. We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. Margarita Muñiz Academy headmaster Dania Vázquez.

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

The Hechinger Report

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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