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

The Hechinger Report

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. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2 percent drop in college language class enrollments and a 5.3 The bad news?

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

The Hechinger Report

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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