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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The writers said the quota system helped diversify students in federal universities.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Before 2012, it was difficult for Brazilian universities to make sure poor and minority students could receive higher education.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Some universities developed policies to bring in more students from poor areas. However, that did not always make a clear difference in the race of students attending the college.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The writers of the piece worried that a similar plan by American colleges and universities would not work as well as affirmative action.
- Public domaingeneral-american
Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
They advised university leaders that race-based polices work better than other systems. “University leaders,” they wrote, “must find…new ways to make their campuses more diverse.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
How to achieve that may be a challenge but it seems to remain a worthwhile pursuit
- Public domaingeneral-american
Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
In their article, the writers said other nations should be able to enact policies similar to the ones in Brazil without worrying that students will be deeply hurt.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
The one group they said they are concerned about is the group of wealthier students who lost their places at the federal universities because of quotas.
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Effects of Affirmative Action after 10 Years in Brazil
Those students face the high cost of attending private universities. I’m Jill Robbins.
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- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Isidora Djukic is a biology and chemistry student at John Carroll University near Cleveland, Ohio.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
She never thought that one day she would be in a classroom where an English teacher asked her to play a board game in order to learn about climate change.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Djukic is taking a biology class called Climate Change: Global Impacts. At the same time, she is taking an English class called Environmental Literature.
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English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Her university requires students to take two connected classes that examine the same subject in different ways. “They both focus on global climate change,” Djukic said.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Debra Rosenthal is the English professor. At first, Djukic said she was uncertain about Rosenthal’s board game idea.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
“I was just like: ‘this is interesting. Like we’re going to learn about climate change by playing a board game?
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English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Like how fun is this actually going to be, and how much are we actually going to take away from it?’” Rosenthal thought her students would gain a greater understanding about how t…
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
After testing the games with some adults, she got permission to buy six copies of a game called Solutions.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
The goal is to pick cards and then add them to the game board in a way that helps reduce global temperatures.
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English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
They work together to choose the best plan of action. The game is different from board games such as Monopoly, where the goal is to win.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Rosenthal said she hoped the games would give students a chance to talk about climate change in a new way. During most classes, students read material and then discuss their ideas.
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English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
“But by playing the games, it’s a way to be social, to engage in conversation There has to be a lot of energy around the table.
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English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
It’s very collaborative And in the game that I chose to play, they really were able to work together and try to come up with a solution so that the planet was not destroyed.”
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
During the class, she said, students laughed, disagreed and had to call for votes as a way to decide how to move forward in the game.
- Public domaingeneral-american
English Professor Uses Board Games to Teach Climate Change
Djukic said it was a “way to have fun…while also learning about such a serious subject.”
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