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Teach About Immigration

Zinn Education Project

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants.

Teaching 132
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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Edinboro University, a public institution in Pennsylvania, cut 31 degree programs and concentrations in 2018, including music.

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OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

The Hechinger Report

And in the 2018 rankings, Oxford University remained number one, while the University of Cambridge ranked second (jumping from fourth place in 2016-17). These trends are confirmed by a 2012 survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , which showed that the U.S.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

A 2018 study found that this ability to more easily learn a language lasts until about age 17 or 18 – which is longer than previously thought – but then begins to decline. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. Another important consideration is the age at which students begin to study a foreign language.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

He attributes the cut to budget concerns — IU Northwest was the only campus within Indiana University’s higher education system to see a decline in appropriations from FY 2017 to 2018. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Still, we were taking a risk.