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Category: Education

Posted inEducation

Raising kids? Working full-time? How ‘time poverty’ can keep college students from graduating

by Claire Wladis, The Conversation September 5, 2024September 6, 2024

Study: Black women have the least time for university study, compared with any other group.

Woman in center with white hair and dark skin wearing a pearl necklace. Red brick college building in background.
Posted inBooks

Mary McLeod Bethune finally gets her due in new biography

by Carole V. Bell August 4, 2024August 2, 2024
Woman in light-blue t-shirt smiles as she leans toward a child with hair in pigtails playing with a wooden counting toy.
Posted inEducation

As Boston pursues ‘hub’ model, city battles memories of segregated neighborhood schools

by Carrie Jung, WBUR June 21, 2024June 24, 2024
Boy on swingset swings close to camera while man behind pushes other boy. Large brick building in distance.
Posted inEducation

Busing turned a Charlestown school into a Mandarin language magnet. Now that program’s closing

by Carrie Jung, WBUR June 21, 2024June 21, 2024
Row of yellow school buses behind a metal fence.
Posted inEducation

The desegregation of Boston’s schools was a long time coming

by Jason Sokol, WBUR June 21, 2024June 21, 2024
Black-and-white photo showing students working at desks as teacher leans down to help one stuent. Classroom is racially integrated.
Posted inEducation

Timeline: Major events shaping Boston’s school busing era

by Suevon Lee, WBUR June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
Woman with dark skin and black curly hair wearing floral top looks at camera. Collage in background shows protesters, police and a brick school building.
Posted inEducation

We were sent to desegregate a high school in Boston

by The Emancipator June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
Illustration showing a small schoolhouse glowing brightly in the center of the frame while people rush toward it from all directions. City buildings line the streets.
Posted inEducation

The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools

by Dart Adams June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
Illustration showing rows of light-skinned students working at desks in upper left and rows of dark-skinned students working at desks in lower right, separated by empty floor space.
Posted inEducation

How school segregation survived Boston’s busing

by Emily Piper-Vallillo June 19, 2024June 26, 2024
Illustration showing outer wall of school building with glimpses into many classrooms with light-skinned students learning or painting or using laptops or playing music, while the last window in the lower right shows a single dark-skinned student sitting alone.
Posted inEducation

The empty promise of ‘diversity’

by Pamela D’Andrea Martínez June 19, 2024June 19, 2024

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