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UChicago Course on Whiteness Sparks Debate Over Free Speech and Cyberbullying

By: Vimal Patel — July 3rd 2023 at 23:51
A student objected to a class, “The Problem of Whiteness,” and tweeted the lecturer’s photo and email address. Hate mail poured in. What should the school do?
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How Colleges Admissions Might Diversify Without Affirmative Action

By: Stephanie Saul — July 3rd 2023 at 21:49
To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?
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Harvard’s Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni

By: Stephanie Saul — July 3rd 2023 at 19:11
After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white.
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El fin de la discriminación positiva va a empeorar la situación para mucha gente

By: Tyler Austin Harper — July 3rd 2023 at 17:56
Doy clases en una universidad de élite en Estados Unidos y aunque creo que la discriminación positiva deformó la cultura universitaria, también he viso que es necesaria.
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She’s Going Into 6th Grade and Already Saving for College

By: James Barron — July 3rd 2023 at 08:09
A New York City program encourages children to save from kindergarten.
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One Black Family, One Affirmative Action Ruling, and Lots of Thoughts

By: Audra D. S. Burch — July 2nd 2023 at 20:16
The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest version of a question that the Whitehead family — and the nation — has been grappling with for years: How to deal with the legacy of slavery?
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Supreme Court Decisions on Education Could Offer Democrats an Opening

By: Jonathan Weisman — July 1st 2023 at 09:00
The decisions this week on affirmative action and student loans give Democrats a way to make a case on class and appeal to voters who have drifted away from the party.
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The ‘Unseen’ Students in the Affirmative Action Debate

By: Sarah Mervosh and Troy Closson — July 1st 2023 at 09:00
Race-conscious admissions helped only a tiny fraction of Black and Hispanic students. It could not address the many obstacles to a college degree.
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What Is the Higher Education Act? Biden to Try Canceling Student Loans Again.

By: Charlie Savage — June 30th 2023 at 22:40
Some advocates of the debt forgiveness wanted the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 from the beginning.
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Student Loan Borrowers React to Supreme Court Decision

By: Stacy Cowley — June 30th 2023 at 18:56
Millions will now have to repay debts the Biden administration had promised to eliminate.
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Biden Plan for Transgender Title IX Rules Began on Inauguration Day

By: Katie Rogers — April 8th 2023 at 02:44
Officials were working on a plan to protect transgender athletes since the day the president was sworn in. In recent months, they raced to issue protections as states moved to revoke them.
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College Students Have Something to Say. It’s Just Not What You’d Expect.

By: Jonathan Malesic — April 7th 2023 at 19:14
And to find out what it is, there’s one great place to look.
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Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Girl in School Sports Dispute

By: Adam Liptak — April 6th 2023 at 21:31
The justices issued a temporary order allowing the girl to compete on the girls’ track team at a West Virginia middle school.
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Taking Social Security, Paying Student Debt: Financial Planners Weigh In

By: Elizabeth Harris — April 6th 2023 at 20:56
Readers sent some of their most urgent financial queries, asking about issues like Social Security and student loan debt. Financial planners offered ideas.
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The School Where the Pandemic Never Ended

By: Meg Bernhard — April 6th 2023 at 02:54
As the nation’s schools ‘return to normal,’ teachers in an L.A. neighborhood hit hard by Covid are left to manage their students’ grief — and their own.
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For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get

By: Natasha Singer — April 5th 2023 at 09:00
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
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A Chicago Mayoral Hopeful Who Took on Hard-to-Fix Schools Faces a Political Shift

By: Mitch Smith and Matthew Rosenberg — April 4th 2023 at 22:26
Paul Vallas has long been a supporter of charter schools. He is running against Brandon Johnson, an ex-teacher with a different approach.
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Chicagoans Go to the Polls in a Mayoral Race. Here’s What to Know.

By: Mitch Smith — April 4th 2023 at 17:57
Paul Vallas, a former public school executive, has called for a crackdown on crime, while Brandon Johnson, a county commissioner, wants to expand social programs.
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They Have Finished Moving 225 Tons of Reimagined Art

By: Rebecca J. Ritzel — April 3rd 2023 at 17:25
With considerable effort, a landscape sculpture featuring huge granite boulders has been trucked across Washington, D.C., to its new home at American University.
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Margot Stern Strom, Anti-Bigotry Educator, Dies at 81

By: Richard Sandomir — April 1st 2023 at 16:31
She started an organization whose curriculums challenge teenagers to understand the roots of the Holocaust, racism, apartheid and other human injustices.
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