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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. The post Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality? Its newly minted honors program doesn’t consider SAT scores for admissions.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

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550 billion — the investment needed to bring schools nationwide up to standard due to damage caused by postponing repairs, according to a 2013 federal estimate. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion.

Economics 141
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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

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More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. By contrast, fewer than a quarter of the students in the top 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. Reading comprehension scores for middle schoolers had been declining for a decade since 2013. That’s a big deal.

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How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Chooses to Go to Campus?

ED Surge

In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

Economics 122
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Two studies point to the power of teacher-student relationships to boost learning

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Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

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On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions.