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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. Enrollments are down 15 percent since 2009 — even though more and more students want global experiences, such as international internships and study abroad programs, and a chance to practice languages they do speak. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2

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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

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At the most selective institutions, middle-class students have been displaced by wealthier ones , a study by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute found. The proportion of those from families earning $53,600 to $98,810 slipped from 25 percent of enrollment in 1999 to 18 percent in 2016.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

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The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. Julian Hipkins III, a former staff member at Teaching for Change who now serves as the global studies coordinator at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C., Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend. Reconstruction is the answer to that question.”.

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