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A sixth grader punches the buttons of a calculator with a pencil to solve problems in a math book

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The Case for Calculators in the Mathematics Classroom

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illustration of a column with students carrying books carved into the top against a yellow background with the words education in a just community at the top

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Priorities for Education in a Just Community

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Black and white photo of seven community college students speaking together outside on a campus

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Night School, English 101

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Illustration of a young man with sunglasses on his forehead, mouth open and eyes wide in excitement, holding a PDA-style device with the words Admitted to the Class of 2036 on the screen

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How Online Communities Can Affect College Admissions and More

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Black and white photo of a teacher helping students reading books in a middle school classroom

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Middle School: Crossroads on the Path to College

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Black and white photo of Bill Honig, on left, speaking with three students in an office

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Bill Honig: A Man Between Two Worlds

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Teacher leading a sign language class

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The Case for Recognizing American Sign Language

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Children are interviewed by a television news reporter

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Education and Media at a Crossroads

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Students Working on Computers in Class in the 1990s

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Policy Brief: The Digital Divide and Educational Opportunity

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Black and white photo of a woman win a business dress and light scarf and glasses, smiling next to a parked car

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Caryl M. Kline: A First Lady in Education

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Black and white photo of a grinning A. Bartlett Giamatti seen from the neck up

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A Talk with A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Three illustrations, at left, student in graduation regalia handed a diploma and loan bill; in the center, two students in regalia, one holds a sign reading debt free now and the other wears a sign reading just merged; at right a student running from a debt bill

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Federal Student Loan Plans: The Dangers Are Real

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Black and white photo of a smiling male college student sitting in front of an open laptop

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No Longer a Novelty, Online Learning Comes of Age

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Black and white photo of a white female high school student working at a computer

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The Gender Gap in AP Computer Science: 1984-1996

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Black and white headshot of a smiling Oliver Brown

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Brown v. Board of Education at Fifty: A Personal Perspective

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Black and white photo of a male college student with his hand against his mouth and chin, looking pensively at a computer screen

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Assessment's Next Wave: The Computerized Placement Tests

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A column, tilted to the right, with the words higher education affordability written above it

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Will It be the Health-Care Issue of the 21st Century?

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Illustration of a trash can with a diploma and graduation cap coming out of it

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The Public Perception of Education

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two hands pointing at two old computer terminals set against a blue-purple background

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Beyond Computer Literacy: Defining Levels of Skill in the Use of Computers

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two hands hold a piece of paper up to the vietnam veterans memorial to make an etching of a name on the wall

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Teaching the Vietnam Era: A Course in History and Literature

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black and white photo of donald stewart, in glasses and a suit, talking to a group from a lectern with a college board logo on the front of it

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Leadership in a Democratic Society

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three people, from left, a woman and two men, raise their hands as they take the oath of citizenship

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Wired World: On Education, the Internet, and the New Immigrants

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grid of four black and white photographs of donald m stewart

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An Interview with Donald M. Stewart

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homemade sign created by students in 1951 protesting wretched conditions at their school. the sign reads "hi we want a new school! strike"

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How a Band of High School Students Influenced Desegregation

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a photo of former new york governor mario cuomo on the set of meet the press

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Why Writing Is Important: An Interview with Mario Cuomo

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black and white photo of a classroom of students watching a lesson on a television

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Teaching With Television—In 1961

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Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti standing on a baseball field in a light suit and striped tie

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A Conversation with Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti

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a silver acorn and oak leaf on a black background

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The Advanced Placement Program: Reflections on Its Origins

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black and white image of a soldier in vietnam

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Vietnam Veterans in Higher Education

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black and white photo of two native american men in street clothes looking at the camera

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The Reappearance of the Vanishing American

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portrait of alexander hamilton on a brown background

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Alexander Hamilton: Nontraditional Student

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a collage of the american flag, declaration of independence, and constitution

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Civic Participation: We Need It Everywhere, More Than Ever

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an illustration of people walking into a school carrying bulky computers and walking out with a stack of books

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Computers: The New Kick in the Schools

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an illustration in blue and gold of two men from the 19th century standing atop the statue of liberty's torch

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Immigration and the Traditions of Liberty

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an illustration of a crouching college student looking angry and holding a sign that reads watts wrong

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What’s Really Behind Our Students’ Unrest?

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an elderly ukranian woman raises her right hand as she reads her "Oath Of Allegiance" during a naturalization ceremony in 2004

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Immigration: Education’s Story Past, Present, and Future

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a black and white photo rom 1986 of college professor Tom Tucker sitting at a computer and writing on a tablet with a stylus connected to the computer

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Teaching AP Calculus by Telephone and Computer

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