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South African students take the lead in protests over college costs and equity

The Hechinger Report

It’s an accident of history that allowed all of these same issues in the United States to emerge in South Africa at such a pitch.”. In the United States, too, states cut funding by 23 percent per student, on average, in the five years after the recession, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculates. The same is true of U.S.

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OPINION: Time to bring back our relationship with UNESCO for its strong commitment to education

The Hechinger Report

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.