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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. Bierema, L.

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OPINION: How to use university endowments for coronavirus recovery

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For example, Princeton University spent an average of $96,295 per student on university operations just from its endowment in 2012 because it enrolled only 7,813 pupils — most of them graduate students — even though its endowment had grown to over $17 billion. This story about U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

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They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

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We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready for college. That matters

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Some states hadn’t collected data since 2012, and some states didn’t have any remediation data available to share. Its 2012 report “Bridge to Nowhere” found that across 33 states 52 percent of entering students at two-year schools and 20 percent at four-year schools were placed in remedial classes in the fall of 2006.

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What happens when teachers run the school

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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

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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

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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.

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