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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. The first was peer influence.

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Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture. Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E. in fact he was talking about 'peasants' [1967:4].

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” centric, making some of its generalizations, at times, questionable.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

The idea is “that teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools,” according to program director Laura Delgado. But if Delgado is right about the benefits for Nashville classrooms of a cultural match between teachers and students, the program has arrived just in time.

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A tough-to-swallow reason college keeps costing more: the price of meal plans

The Hechinger Report

That was in the 2013-2014 academic year, the most recent for which the figures are available. In its strategic plan, it singles out its dining operations as “creating a culture of hospitality and service excellence for campus constituents and visitors while providing financial returns.”.