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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

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These include everything from interviewing and archival research to textual interpretation, discourse analysis and ethnographic inquiry. Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy.

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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

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Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” found a report from the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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How much would it cost to get all students up to average?

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Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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‘A second prison’: People face hidden dead ends when they pursue a range of careers post-incarceration

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He received his doctorate in 2019 and now serves as vice president of programs for The Fortune Society, an education, service and advocacy organization focused on criminal justice and re-entry. Such advocacy has bipartisan support.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

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Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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

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Once they do arrive on campus, many students who show poor math and English skills are diverted into no-credit remedial (also called “developmental”) courses , which makes them 74 percent more likely to drop out of college than students who aren’t, according to the advocacy group Education Reform Now; those who do finish take nearly a year longer.

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Obama says failing to help everyone will drag down the economy. Here’s how research shows that’s true

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This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. In his final news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama said that the entire economy could be affected if people of all backgrounds are now supported.