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

The Hechinger Report

That’s been the case since the 1990s, and it’s gotten only worse and worse since 2000 and particularly since 2008,” the time of the last recession, said Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and author of “Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost.”

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

The Hechinger Report

Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend. Reconstruction is the answer to that question.”.

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