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America’s culture wars are playing out in the classroom, with near-daily headlines about attacks on school curriculum. Just about every subject has come under political fire, from math and reading to American history and gender studies. Dozens of states have recently acted to limit how race and issues of racism can be discussed in schools. Efforts to reform math face backlash

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No more legacy preferences, test-score gaming, and résumé padding! Watch, if you dare, as the merely rich and only sort of powerful attempt to secure Ivy League admission spots without the old bag of tricks.

A new report, co-authored by Stanford scholars, advises National Science Foundation on building an applied science to support “working learners.”

Patrice Bergeron scores 4, Bruins beat Red Wings 5-1 | 2021-11-05 11:03:02

Patrice Bergeron scored his first four goals of the season, Brad Marchand had four assists and the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Thursday night.

A: Thank you for calling attention to this foundational point of the book. The history of higher education contains a steady trajectory of infusing race and supporting racism in and through colleges and universities without necessarily calling attention to the everyday reality of these perspectives and operations. For example, the histories of early college life show that while white men from well-connected families were trained to take over family business, enter medicine or pursue a life as c...

WhatsApp TODAY THOUSANDS of hopeful students find out whether they have got into America’s prestigious Ivy League universities. The admissions process is fiercely competitive, but some applicants have a helping hand. Roughly three-quarters of the top 100 universities in America give an admissions boost to children of alumni. These privileged progeny are known as “legacies”. The policy, or at least its brazenness, is unique to America (universities in other countries tend to be less open a...