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Kindness, innovation, and Tuesday’s election

Dangerously Irrelevant

Let’s be clear: this may be the reality in our country but the vitriolic hate and utter dismissal of basic human dignities that have been major political themes during this election represent the worst of human nature and American society. Colorado high school graduation rate, Class of 2009 x 52.6%

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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. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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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 majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities,” noted Chen, “which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.”. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images. Mississippi Learning.

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New faces on campus: Students of all races welcome first black presidents to largely white colleges

The Hechinger Report

Minority students at Pitzer, a private institution of just over a thousand students that is part of the five-member Claremont College Consortium in California, penned a letter t o the administration in November 2015 to express frustration at the college’s failure to support students of all backgrounds and races. “We, Next stop, college. “It

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Teachers: Increase Student Equity and Inclusion by Reflecting on Your Videos

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Bryan proposed that teacher candidates use video to capture and analyze, using a framework provided by a Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion course instructor, their mannerisms and other elements of communication, such as body language, tone, physical spacing, word choice, and implicit bias.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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