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Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

Political Science Now

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. The symposium will be led by the Editor-in-Chief of Human Rights Review , George Andreopoulos (CUNY John Jay and Graduate Center), and the Pedagogical Section Editor for Human Rights Review , Steven D.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment. Degree programs to be offered include accounting, business administration, education, human resource management, health services administration and technology project management.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. At the California State University System, that’s part of a plan to more than double the proportion of freshmen who finish in four years from the current 19 percent to 40 percent by 2025. Choose as many as you like.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

While taking coursework in human services, she used money earmarked for students in the recovery program to earn certification as a peer recovery coach. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. She uses the skills daily as a leader in the recovery housing where she lives near campus. “But

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

That’s the separate goal set out by the Lumina Foundation to achieve by 2025. The real downside comes in 10 years or 20 years, when this incredible human capital engine that has fueled our economy over the last century starts to sputter,” he said. It might not even take that long. Why haven’t other states had the same growth?”

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