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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. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The bad news? They’re still behind.

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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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