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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

Sapiens

Spain has a deep and far-reaching colonial history, particularly in Latin America. The claim that Spain’s imperialism isn’t true colonization reflects a reluctance to confront the darker aspects of the country’s history, which involved widespread exploitation, violence, and cultural erasure across continents.

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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028. “We Brookdale Community College is in a state that has named dual enrollment as a priority.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Local science and natural history museums could also help by arranging free outdoor and physically distanced exhibits, and setting up outdoor kid-friendly laboratories with slides and microscopes. jobs in the STEM sector are forecast to grow by 8 percent by 2028. Related: We must boost elementary science education. In the U.S.,

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So That makes her angry. “We

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OPINION: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation and the end of affirmative action signal to Black people that they will never belong

The Hechinger Report

Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation ends the shortest tenure in the university’s history — six months. It’s not a coincidence that the record is set by the school’s first Black woman president. We were headed for this moment since she started in July.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

USA 2025-2028 is not a serial I am looking forward to. A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. As Richard says on p.22,

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In the Baltics, 85 millimeters separate East from West

Strange Maps

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. The second, completing the whole project, currently has no end date.

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