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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, Butler Traditional High School, a public high school in Kentucky, introduced a new dress code policy banning twists, dreadlocks, afros longer than two inches, jewelry worn in hair, and cornrows — misspelled as “cornrolls” — asserting that these styles are “extreme, distracting, or attention-getting.”

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OPINION: College chemistry class finds clarity in Flint water crisis

The Hechinger Report

In January 2016, as tensions boiled over the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I felt anger and frustration — and a twinge of excitement. And he’s right. The availability of safe drinking water — a basic human right — is likely to be called into question again and again in communities across the country. Excitement?

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Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example

Steven V. Miller

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. robust standard errors following the recommendations of Imbens and Kolesár (2016). And yes, there’s even more than that.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

iii] Lee, Erika, 2016. Does this mean that Florida is safe for Asian folks but not for Black and queer folks? [ii] ii] Kim, Jung & Hsieh, Betina, 2022. The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers in the US: Applications of Asian Critical Race Theory to Resist Marginalization.” The Making of Asian America: A History."

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students. Many of the people I know through my research in Jordan are Palestinian, have family in Palestine, and/or are of Palestinian descent.

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Thousands of students cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day to go to college

The Hechinger Report

She said education should be seen as a fundamental human right for everyone, “regardless of their status, regardless of where they live.”. Sara González-Quintero, a recent SDSU graduate who started crossing in elementary school, has always had some anxiety about crossing, but she said she wasn’t afraid until 2016.