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How Medical Schools Are Fighting Racial Disparities in Health Care

By Ericka Sóuter

A growing number of medical schools are intent on reducing the racial disparities by raising awareness of the social determinants of health: issues such as lack of transportation, food insecurity, housing, poverty, and isolation that play a critical role in a patient’s life and ability to get care.

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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Help Refugees Attend Georgia Colleges

House Bill 932 seeks to extend in-state tuition rates to refugee students at the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia as soon as they settle in the state. Under U.S.

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Lautaro Grinspan
2022
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An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson

Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education.

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Kenneth Robinson
2018
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The Future of Education: We Live in a Social World

Education is a dynamic system, not a static one. It's not an impersonal, inert engineering system; it’s constantly in flux. It exists in the actions and activities of people every day and is subject to all kinds of conflicting forces and fluctuations.

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Kenneth Robinson
2016
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How Much Homework Is Enough? Depends Who You Ask

In the stereotypical classroom, the teacher spends time in class presenting material to the students. Their homework consists of assignments based on that material.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2018
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Standardization Broke Education. Here’s How We Can Fix Our Schools

“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”

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Kenneth Robinson
2019
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Teaching Tips for Children and Adults with Autism

Good teachers helped me to achieve success. I was able to overcome autism because I had good teachers.

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Temple Grandin
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Genius May Be an Abnormality: Educating Students with Asperger’s Syndrome, or High Functioning Autism

I am becoming increasingly concerned that intellectually gifted children are being denied opportunities because they are being labeled either Asperger’s or high functioning autism.

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Temple Grandin
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Radicalizing Yoga and Bringing Social Justice to the Mat

Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”

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Stephanie Van Hook
2019
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Malala: The Girl Who Was Shot for Going to School

Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen—her “crime,” to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated.

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Mishal Husain
2013
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