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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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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. Students just are not OK. million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points.

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What some colleges are quietly doing to help undocumented students

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: How to use university endowments for coronavirus recovery

The Hechinger Report

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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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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How Lifelong Readers Are Helping Communities Thrive

Digital Promise

Allington 2012. Hernandez Professor, Department of Sociology Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Senior Advisor, Foundation for Child Development. Bayless 2010. Robinson 2010. Achterman 2008. Evans, Kelley, Sikora, and Treiman 2010. Schubert and Becker 2010. Krashen 2004. Guthrie 2008. Atwell 2007.

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