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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To In 2013-14, average per-pupil spending on public education in the U.S.

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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. The federal government does not supplement local funding for gifted programs as it does for special education. In panel after panel, experts and educators wrung their hands and proffered solutions.

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A new challenge for colleges: opioid-addicted students

The Hechinger Report

Those grim statistics, and a flurry of seed funds from state governments and nonprofit organizations, are compelling colleges to take the often joked-about issue of campus drug use much more seriously, acknowledging a problem that still makes many campus leaders — especially in recruitment, development, and alumni offices — uncomfortable.

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The colleges that won’t die

The Hechinger Report

Antioch College in Ohio, which focuses on activism and social justice and is governed collectively by its faculty and students, reopened after closing for three years, during which faculty and alumni sued and raised money to revive it. We’re not just fighting for Antioch College.

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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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How Racism Shapes the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

Sapiens

Since 2013, overdose rates have spiked with wider access to powerful synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl. Her groundbreaking work explores how social structures and belief systems affect people’s well-being and access to health care—for better or worse. Most active harm reduction organizations are social justice organizations.