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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

An open discussion right after a tragic event, with questions like “how do you feel about this situation?” Information gave students power; debates at the turn of the new century, Wunn said, became much more real, and students found the immediacy of bringing current events scraped off the web into their debates intoxicating.

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A historic moment for HBCUs?

The Hechinger Report

Even so, its enrollment had dwindled from a high of 2,250 students in 2003 to about 1,000 by 2020. A 2019 report from the American Council on Education and the United Negro College Fund found that between 2003 and 2015, when federal funding decreased for all colleges and universities, public and private HBCUs faced the sharpest drops.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

So I’m including a lot of events in this article that are not “ed-tech” per se. Thiel spoke at the Republican Party Convention, the first gay man to take the main stage at that event. Wikileaks – perhaps in cooperation with Russia – releasing stolen emails from the DNC and from Clinton’s campaign.