As DACA recipients grapple with their legal options, many universities are now assessing how their “sanctuary” status can go from symbolic to proactive.
While Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands clean up after Hurricane Irma, many residents of these US territories say the challenge of storm relief is not just the devastation, but neglect from their fellow Americans in the continental US.
A new study suggests the H-1B visa program is creating a positive impact on American and Indian economics, and isn’t contributing to an Indian “brain drain” as much as some critics fear.
The US citizenship has an amazingly high pass rate — but it also has a number of critics. They argue the questions, frankly, are bad. And the test doesn't encourage immigrants to become better citizens, but rather to memorize facts they can write on the test.
Students from the public high school in Medford, Massachusetts planned to take part in 'World Hijab Day.’ That sparked some angry reaction. But organizers say it succeeded by getting people talking.
Yowei Shaw was born in the United States and speaks virtually no Mandarin. Her grandfather is from Taiwan and speaks virtually no English. Kid talk was fine when Yowei was a kid. But now she's grown up, she's determined to have proper conversations with Yeye— before it's too late.
In New York City, like in other parts of the US, some students spend their break digging into algebra equations, hoping to ace a test that will get them into a top public high school. But some question whether a single test unfairly leaves some students out.
Public schools in Montgomery Country, Maryland, recently ended all religious holidays — at least in name — rather than adding Muslim ones to the school calendar. But is the practice of giving religious holidays off in public schools even legal in the first place?
Japan and India signed a controversial civil nuclear deal on Friday that will allow Japanese companies to export atomic technology to the Asian giant as the two countries deepen economic and security ties.
If you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.
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What does the US citizenship exam actually test?
PRI's The World
October 15, 2013
The US citizenship has an amazingly high pass rate — but it also has a number of critics. They argue the questions, frankly, are bad. And the test doesn't encourage immigrants to become better citizens, but rather to memorize facts they can write on the test.
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Development & Education
'Hijab Day' at this Boston area high school was canceled, but it got people talking
PRI's The World
May 25, 2016
Students from the public high school in Medford, Massachusetts planned to take part in 'World Hijab Day.’ That sparked some angry reaction. But organizers say it succeeded by getting people talking.
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Development & Education
Help! I can't communicate with my Mandarin-speaking grandpa
The World in Words
September 30, 2015
Yowei Shaw was born in the United States and speaks virtually no Mandarin. Her grandfather is from Taiwan and speaks virtually no English. Kid talk was fine when Yowei was a kid. But now she's grown up, she's determined to have proper conversations with Yeye— before it's too late.
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Development & Education
Lazy days of summer? Not for these students gunning for a make-or-break exam
PRI's The World
August 11, 2015
In New York City, like in other parts of the US, some students spend their break digging into algebra equations, hoping to ace a test that will get them into a top public high school. But some question whether a single test unfairly leaves some students out.
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Development & Education
How to avoid closing your school for Muslim holidays — end Christian and Jewish ones, too
The Takeaway
November 15, 2014
Public schools in Montgomery Country, Maryland, recently ended all religious holidays — at least in name — rather than adding Muslim ones to the school calendar. But is the practice of giving religious holidays off in public schools even legal in the first place?
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Development & Education
'Controversial' nuclear deal signed by Japan and India
Agence France-Presse
November 11, 2016
Japan and India signed a controversial civil nuclear deal on Friday that will allow Japanese companies to export atomic technology to the Asian giant as the two countries deepen economic and security ties.
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Development & Education
Purists don't like this mix of Acadian French and English, but it may be helping the French language in Canada
The World in Words
April 05, 2016
If you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.
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Development & Education
A tenured US professor is leading an Ethiopian rebel group
PRI's The World
September 01, 2016
Berhanu Nega, on leave from Bucknell University, is trying to overthrow the government of his native Ethiopia.
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Development & Education
Climate change, meet your apocalyptic twin: oceans poisoned by plastic
GlobalPost
December 13, 2016
How throw-away plastic could alter humanity as we know it.
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Development & Education
Boston's public schools have adopted a new, more accurate world map
PRI's The World
March 20, 2017
Boston's public schools are leading the way with the Gall-Peters projection world maps for its classrooms.