Social Class News

Rural areas have been slow to connect to broadband. More public funding could speed things up

This article is about families and students who live in rural areas and don’t have access to “good” internet to...

Hong Kong’s new rules have parents leaving Hong Kong

This CNN article details how some parents are planning to emigrate from Hong Kong because of new legislation stating pro-democracy...

Can edtech partnerships bring lifelong learning to all?

This article presents information on how the pandemic is shaping employers’ investment in their staff and ways of edtech companies...

Migrant farmworkers’ risk of traveling under COVID-19

Two pieces of news that you may be of your interest. Last week, the owner of a Chinese restaurant downtown...

Entrenched and unbroken correlation between social class and educational success

In this article, a discussion on bettering education for young people in Northern England described the problem at hand, the...

Why is bilingual education ‘good’ for rich kids but ‘bad’ for poor, immigrant students?

This article looks at the juxtaposition of the value of bilingualism when concerning social class and cultural capital. It is...

The New York Times Fridge Quiz Is a Referendum on Class and Whiteness

In this article, which is actually an opinion piece, the author discusses how a quiz by the New York Times...

Social Class Represented in Television

This student opinion article from the New York Times discusses social class and how it is portrayed through public television....

Why Inheritance Is Mostly Overrated As A Reason For Wealth

This article in Forbes magazine discusses the myth that the main means to wealth in America is through inheritance. There...

Spikes in Covid-19 have Hospitals Reeling

This article discusses how hospitals in El Paso and Milwaukee are handling the continuous increase of confirmed coronavirus cases. Hospitals...

VP answers about justice being served for Breonna Taylor

In this New York Times article, a break down on the U.S. vice presidential debate is given. More specifically, when...

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed at Fifty

Here’s an interesting article on Freire, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

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