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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.” says at times it feels more like a graduate-level seminar than an undergraduate class. The college classes have erased the barriers that typically exist among prisoners of different backgrounds, he explained.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. Around the country, gifted and talented programs have come under fire for exacerbating school systems’ already stark racial and economic segregation.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. And the confluence of language, history and economics on the Seaway provided an ideal – not to mention local – lens through which to view the liberal arts. Just as the St.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

They are also diverse in their ethnicity, gender and economic status. Faculty should want to change the culture of their required courses; they should want to work in the best departments with bleeding-edge science — and undergraduate students are vital to this goal.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. Mississippi Learning.

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MAY 30, 2024

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ I study the stuff of culture and ideas and how those change.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Because I was putting my son’s well-being behind the economic well-being of the family.”. Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If It’s 100 percent, I think, against what our culture tends to think for kids,” Turner said. “It

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. These relationships call on older traditions of religious tolerance in the region. We can and must do more.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s just not part of the culture.” Credit: Austin Anthony/The Hechinger Report That not only contributes to the worsening divide between urban and rural America; it limits economic opportunity in rural places. But in Crossville, he said, “a lot of kids don’t even think about the opportunities out there.

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