The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

With its state allocation deeply cut and its enrollment plummeting, the University of Alaska Anchorage in February proposed eliminating 17 degree programs , including English, theater, creative writing, sociology and environment and society. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.

Anthropology 144

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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. What is a peasant? What are peasantries?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

Among public universities whose student populations are at least 5 percent black and one-quarter low-income, Rutgers-Newark had the second- highest black male graduation rate in the nation in 2013 and the fifth-highest black graduation rate overall. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. That’s not what we think.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is Hispanic increased from 19 to 25 percent between 2003 and 2013, while the black non-Hispanic population dropped from 17 to 16 percent and the white non-Hispanic population fell from 59 to 50 percent. Hispanics are on track to make up more than a quarter of the U.S. The share of U.S.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That was in the 2013-2014 academic year, the most recent for which the figures are available. This is the demand of some students, not others, and yet all students ultimately pay the price for this,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, who studies the cost of college.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2016

“We wanted to let people have a space to just talk, be and make signs because I know that making signs is a form of grieving,” said Joseph Coco, matriculating doctoral student in Sociology at LSU and a principal organizer at the “sign making and information meeting.”. George after failed attempts in 2013 to create a separate school district.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The version produced by neuroscience presents a “neuromolecular” picture with consciousness understood in terms of material processes and electrical impulses, this is a “fleshy” self (Rose and Abi-Rached, 2013). 2013) Neuro : the new brain sciences and the management of the mind. and Horwitz, A.V. and Abi-Rached, JM.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

At UMR, virtually all students take the same core courses in their first two years, a blend of science and humanities that includes sociology, Spanish and writing along with biology and chemistry. By comparison, the national four-year graduation rate for public universities is 37 percent.). The university has almost no adjuncts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. Louis in 2013.

Economics 104

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. But a 2013 RAND Corporation nationwide study found that incarcerated people who got some form of education were 43 percent less likely to reoffend. Hodges also believed that education was one of the surest ways to reduce recidivism.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.” Still, the practice has long been identified as harmful.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Since around 2013, the number of births in half of all states has fallen below the number of deaths. The influx of younger workers to the labor force has been far outpaced by the growth in the number of Americans 65 and older nationwide , which is up by 34 percent since 2010, according to the Census Bureau.

Economics 142

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

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 Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

The University of Michigan successfully lobbied in 2013 to shield much information about fund performance from the state’s open-records law. Michigan State said that, unlike for people who sign on with personal investment managers, its management fees are not calculated separately but simply factored into gains or losses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

The university’s overall international enrollment grew from 184 students to 279 from fall 2013 to fall 2017. Alharthi said his sociology class was all black, and he couldn’t have been more comfortable. The university is establishing partnerships to continue to boost the number of students from abroad, according to Myers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. So far, only a tiny fraction of eligible students have enrolled for online classes.

Charter School 89

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

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.

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