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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012. Full of interesting observations and suggestions, the generalizations come thick and fast (with varying degrees of evidence to support them).

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state. There is a direct correlation between building wealth and having a highly educated workforce,” he said. It is a stubborn problem.

Economics 144
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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” psychology class.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

History 91
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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

Moreover, Owolabi’s extraordinary ability to reach across contexts, time periods, literatures and even disciplines ranging from political science and sociology to history and economics sets the book apart. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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College students react to their first presidential election as adults

The Hechinger Report

And while voters aged 18 to 24 broke for the Democrat in 2016 , they did so less enthusiastically than they had done for Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008. Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton.

Sociology 106