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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”.

Advocacy 145
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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. A biased criminal justice system forces us to redefine “merit” when it comes to determining who earned or deserves a scholarship. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images.

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Lessons from NOLA: Ailing Mississippi district should be wary of charter schools

The Hechinger Report

This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. In 2015, Reimagine Prep opened its doors to one class of 5th graders. million during the 2015-16 academic year due to funds diverted to charters. The SPLC calculates JPS lost $1.85

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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. The number of programs is increasing to meet demand from parents and communities, with 180 dual-language public school programs in New York City alone in 2015.

K-12 97
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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.”

Pedagogy 103
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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive.

Education 145
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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.