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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). But Guo, a double major in psychology and the College of East Asian Studies, wanted to tackle Chinese philosophy in Chinese.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

He completed the equivalent of high school in Lebanon. But to study in his preferred major, bioinformatics, he is determined to go to a university in the United States, which has the top programs in the field. If there was one for coping with bureaucracy, he would have already won it. It’s not affordable.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

He completed the equivalent of high school in Lebanon. But to study in his preferred major, bioinformatics, he is determined to go to a university in the United States, which has the top programs in the field. If there was one for coping with bureaucracy, he would have already won it. It’s not affordable.