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

The Hechinger Report

As a result, African-Americans made huge strides in education, entrepreneurship and political power. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8