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STUDENT VOICE: The path to health equity begins in K-12 classrooms

The Hechinger Report

We know that these disparities can shrink when patients are cared for by doctors who share their cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. Research shows that students exposed to careers in science or medicine at an early age are far more likely to pursue these fields later in life. The problem? It begins in the classroom.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

The Hechinger Report

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. For over three decades, Foster worked for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. million to 17.3

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2026 Annual Meeting

Society for Classical Studies

That includes: Individual abstracts Lightning talks Panel, Committee Panel, Workshop, Seminar, and Roundtable Proposals Affiliated Group Panel Reports (All affiliated groups wanting to submit a panel should select this category) Already approved Organizer-Refereed Reports Charter Application to become an affiliated group, or for existing groups to (..)

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. However, six of the eight proposals up for funding between 2025 and 2027 would be transferred to tribal nations. Tony Incashola Jr., The justification for them is very old. It goes back to, really, the founding of the U.S.,”

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Tech Groups Have Long Encouraged Girls to Pursue STEM. Could the Anti-DEI Wave End That?

ED Surge

Founded in 1959 in California, the initiative offers high school juniors from around the globe a chance to do college-level research in subjects, including astrophysics and biochemistry. The woman made a passing comment about the struggles of Asian dating culture, and Anjum pressed her to continue.