The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

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. When she was six years old, N.W.’s

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Sophomore Abigail Reing’s food science major doesn’t leave enough space in her schedule for regular language study, so she took a course with a Spanish section. In some academic fields research is going global. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

That’s been the case since the 1990s, and it’s gotten only worse and worse since 2000 and particularly since 2008,” the time of the last recession, said Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and author of “Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

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

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