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MAY 5, 2024

History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Instead of caving in, educational institutions should double down on DEI efforts.

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MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College.

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .

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AUGUST 5, 2021

One big surprise at Shasta came as the college worked with Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a national nonprofit group that seeks to improve higher education access and completion. There is a direct correlation between building wealth and having a highly educated workforce,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. Education policy also worries her. Juan Santiago, 21, Oregon.

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