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

The Hechinger Report

The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. The guide can be downloaded free at the National Park Service website.

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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. He completed the equivalent of high school in Lebanon. Photo: Sebastian Wells for The Hechinger Report. It’s not affordable.