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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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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. Taskmasters” (such as some middle managers or leadership professionals) are people who supervise people who don’t need supervision.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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.”

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

The Hechinger Report

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. 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.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Compared to their white peers, students of color are more likely to attend low-performing public primary and secondary schools with inexperienced teachers and high leadership turnover. The stubborn achievement gap between white students and students of color is at least partly due to systemic inequities. Breaking down stereotypes.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered Sept. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen.