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OPINION: Access issues for students go beyond online content, extending to housing and food

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Students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds live off the stipends from financial aid as their primary source of income. This story about online education and inequality was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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In this tiny and shrinking Mississippi county, getting a college degree means leaving home behind

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Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. Do we want the kids to stay? What they gonna stay here for?” Unless his grandchildren want to work on a farm, it’s hard to say. said he doesn’t want a “big population” in the area. Credit: Eric J.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

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You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflict

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The work Goldman’s office did to provide these educational guides is exactly how education leaders should respond to important social issues, according to Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Her staff reaches out to community groups and others for their input.