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Jun 2023
49m 15s

Year in Review: Volume 2

Chelsea Adams, Kate Day
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16:1 Podcast - Year in Review, Volume II

Join us as we reconnect with some of our favorite stories and learning opportunities that unfolded over the past school year. The education headline roundup will cover Biden's student debt relief challenge in the Supreme Court, a look at the College Board's response to new, restrictive content guidelines coming out of state legislatures in Florida, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, and information about the U.K.'s latest bid to curb immigration by restricting study visas to institutions in Great Britain. 

Sources & Resources:

CNBC - Here are key things to know as Supreme Court nears decision on Biden’s student loan forgiveness by Annie Nova

Wikipedia - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Wikipedia - The Idea Factory

CollegeBoard - Our Commitment to AP Students, Families, and Educators

Wikipedia - College World Series

Twitter - History Vids

Noble Blood Podcast

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (Surgeon General's Report)

 

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