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It was a dream years in the making for sisters Candace and Melinda Shaw: to open their own tutoring center in their home borough of Brooklyn. “When I was younger, our parents made a library in our ...

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...