Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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. Traditional models of the market economy, he writes, are centered on the “production” of material goods and their “consumption.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

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. We all put in countless extra hours.

Charter School 135

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Between 2012 and 2015, more than two thirds of students in the accelerated developmental education model passed their college composition classes, compared to fewer than half in the traditional sequence. Jill Cadwell, the English placement coordinator, said pairing classes works “because there’s less chance to lose students.

Tutoring 89

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. Locals worry that some families’ ability to opt out of the traditional schools has diverted resources from the kids who need the most help.

Charter School 80

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. Many in the Ole Miss community talk about tradition, she said, and often use it as a crutch. “Is Instead, it will be renamed.

History 86

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