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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

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In 2004, the late Harvard political science professor Sam Huntington made the argument that recent immigrants, particularly Hispanics, weren’t assimilating well into American society. He married a Jewish-American woman of European heritage. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S.

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College advisers vow to ‘kick the door open’ for Black and Hispanic students despite affirmative action ruling 

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Harvard, highly selective colleges served as a beacon of hope and economic mobility for students like those TeenSHARP advise. Hamza decided to revise his essay from one focused on linguistics to describe experiencing racism and then embracing his Muslim heritage. “I Before the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v.

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

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In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.