The language we use to discuss immigration is dehumanizing: âcatch and releaseâ, âmigrant caravansâ, swarms â anything, in other words, but people
A man seeking asylum holds his infant daughter as they wait to be transported by the US Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico into California on 19 April. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
A man seeking asylum holds his infant daughter as they wait to be transported by the US Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico into California on 19 April. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
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This week, the Biden administration fulfilled a promise it made on Joe Bidenâs first day in office. Agencies that deal with immigration, such as US customs and border patrol, have now been instructed to change their official language practices. Gone are the terms âalienâ, âillegal alienâ and âassimilationâ. Instead, new vocabularies
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It’s no secret that construction work has long been a male-dominated industry. Erik Antokal is striving to change that.
“You have 50% of the population that has essentially been historically excluded from that incredible opportunity – what an untapped resource,” Antokal says.
After graduating from Tufts University in 2012, Antokal completed a fellowship with the Coro New York Leadership Center, where he was able to work with the United Federation of Teachers and 32BJ SEIU, the politically powerful property service workers union. Prior to joining Nontraditional Employment for Women, Antokal also worked for the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where he helped coordinate the city’s business improvement districts.
If you had to choose between having running water at home or risking your home being raided by the authorities, which would you choose? The correct answer is: this shouldn’t even be a question. But it’s become one. The startling truth is that signing up for even basic utilities in this country has turned into a gamble for many people, particularly undocumented immigrants. Last week, the Washington Post revealed that US Immigration and Customs.
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“Higher education is odd in that we don’t typically teach teachers how to teach, students how to learn, or administrators how to lead,” Todd Zakrajsek, associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, observed in
The New Science of Learning. In much the same way, we place students in team projects without coaching them on how to achieve team success. As a consequence, students’ most memorable takeaways are often how much they hate teamwork.
If you’ve ever announced a group project in class, you’ll recall the all-too-familiar groans, sighs and eye rolls. In some cases, faculty find assigning group work just as unpleasant, resenting the role of mediator between quarreling students and struggling to address the ubiquitous problem of social loafing.