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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The number of students taking The College Board’s Advanced Placement tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish rose 68 percent from 2008 to 2018. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. In some academic fields research is going global.

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Heritage Global Studies Advocacy Psychology 93
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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

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. Historians estimate that as many as 2,000 blacks were elected to local, state and federal offices during Reconstruction.

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Teaching Primary Sources History K-12 101
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