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‘Positive culture shock’ spells challenges and triumphs for Afghan teen students

The Hechinger Report

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. Lebanon High School. Mohammadi’s friend N.W.,

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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. 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 It’s not affordable.

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

The Hechinger Report

Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. Historians estimate that as many as 2,000 blacks were elected to local, state and federal offices during Reconstruction.

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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

percent of worldwide humanitarian aid goes to education of any kind, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization , or UNESCO. 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 It’s not affordable.