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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. It was new for them.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. In some academic fields research is going global. We looked at all the drop-downs,” he said, and wherever they saw a spot for a video or fact promoting language study, they added one. Mississippi Learning.

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

The Hechinger Report

In August, Michigan history teacher James Gorman watched televised images of torch-bearing white supremacists marching on the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and decided to use the incident to teach his students about similar events that happened in a divided United States 150 years ago.

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