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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.”.

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Inspired by front-line health care workers, record numbers apply to medical schools

The Hechinger Report

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Ten percent identify themselves as multiracial.). “The

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education. I don’t think so.”.

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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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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.” Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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A hidden, public internet asset that could get more kids online for learning

The Hechinger Report

A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies. “But The EBS slice of spectrum is further obscured by a history that actually predates the internet.

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