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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017. Dr. Kimberly A.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. In 2017, Montana became the first state in the nation to protect Native students’ right to wear regalia.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

ED Surge

For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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OPINION: How one city removed the police from schools, and why others should follow

The Hechinger Report

As our country reckons with a long and continued history of systemic racism, and communities take to the streets to protest police brutality and reinforce that Black Lives Matter, we must consider the many paths that have led us here. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year.