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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi’s NAEP performance gains accompanied new policies that began at roughly the same time: The Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA) , passed by the Mississippi legislature in 2013, is primarily known as a policy to hold back third graders who have not demonstrated basic reading proficiency on a state assessment. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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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.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. Williams didn’t want to ask for help after she fell behind her first semester at UNO.

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Why more black students are enrolling in historically black colleges

The Hechinger Report

But although HBCUs drew 80 percent of all black college-goers four decades ago, that number had been hovering at just over 10 percent, according to a 2013 report by Gasman. Melissa Wooten, sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts. and Oprah Winfrey. There’s obviously something happening at a societal level.”.

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Deadlines, endless forms, constant college prep pressure: Is the finish line in sight?

The Hechinger Report

Not everyone at Match will make it: Of 78 students who entered Match in the fall of 2013 as ninth-graders, 16 have either moved, transferred or no longer attend. Not everyone will make it: Of 78 students who entered Match in the fall of 2013 as ninth-graders, 16 have either moved, transferred or no longer attend.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. 14, 2013: Jonathan Ferrell Killed by Police Aug. Most recently, they’ve removed one of the Gen.