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Cocaine And College: How Black Lives Matter In U.S. Public Higher Education, Bill Lyne
Cocaine And College: How Black Lives Matter In U.S. Public Higher Education, Bill Lyne
Journal of Educational Controversy
Taking the Black Panthers' call for relevant education as its starting point, this article looks at the recent history of race and higher education to put the Back Lives Matter movement into historical perspective and ask whether Black lives can ever really matter in U.S. mainstream education.
Higher Education Under The Islamic Republic: The Case Of The Baha’Is, Mina Yazdani
Higher Education Under The Islamic Republic: The Case Of The Baha’Is, Mina Yazdani
Journal of Educational Controversy
This article explores the Islamic Republic of Iran’s campaign to deny Baha’is, members of Iran's largest religious minority, access to higher education. It outlines the contours of this campaign: in the early 1980s, the newly established Islamic government began dismissing Baha’i students from universities; later and up to the early 2000s, it forbid them from even participating in the nation-wide university entrance exam; finally, in order to divert growing international attention from its campaign, it began admitting a small number of Baha’i students into universities, though in more recent years, it has expelled the majority of these students before they …