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How to Help the Students With No Homes? – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tens of thousands of students qualify as “unaccompanied homeless youth.” The students’ message to colleges: Improve your policies. Source: How to Help the Students With No Homes? – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education
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How an App Helps Low-Income Students by Turning College Life Into a Game – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Source: How an App Helps Low-Income Students by Turning College Life Into a Game – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education Good to have attention to this issue.
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Why a Global Education Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Abroad – International – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Domestic “study away” programs, often cheaper and more accessible than a course overseas, can expose students to diverse cultures closer to home. Source: Why a Global Education Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Abroad – International – The Chronicle of Higher … Continue reading
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U.S.A., Land of Limitations?
The biggest factor for success isn’t hard work but how our lives started. Source: U.S.A., Land of Limitations? A touching follow-up to an earlier story, less often told but more common, about someone who is never able to pull himself … Continue reading
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Want to Fight Anti-Latino/a Prejudice?: 5 Reasons to Bring the Community into the Classroom | Marisel Moreno
One of the most powerful ways to combat racist and negative stereotypes about U.S. Latinas and Latinos, or any group for that matter, is to be armed with actual facts and data, and to use that information to engage others … Continue reading
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VIDEO – Fox 28: South Bend, Elkhart IN News, Weather, Sports
Source: VIDEO – Fox 28: South Bend, Elkhart IN News, Weather, Sports Great story on local migrant farmworkers.
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Poverty and the Metaphor of the Turtle | Tobias Roberts
We live in a society that is afraid of and actively punishes slowness. The features of a life lived slowly and close to land and to community, might seem to many to be backwards and archaic, but it is high … Continue reading
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This Video Will Change The Way You Look At Privilege
What is privilege? Is there any way to describe it? In a recent video posted by Buzzfeed, several people are asked a series of questions and then told to either step forward or backward if the ques Source: This Video … Continue reading
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What Poverty Does to the Young Brain – The New Yorker
For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin. Source: What Poverty Does to the Young Brain – The New Yorker
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Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream | Brookings Institution
Brookings expert Richard Reeves presents an in-depth examination on social mobility and equality in America, and what we can do to save the American Dream. Source: Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream | Brookings Institution An important … Continue reading
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