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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. The State University of New York at Fredonia is dropping 13 degree programs, including sociology, philosophy, industrial management, French and Spanish. He said it’s hard to watch these students struggling with the questions, “Do I stay?” “Do

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

And she was running for the school’s governing board. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “ parental rights.”

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year.

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Reality check: After four years of tough college prep, high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid

The Hechinger Report

In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade-point averages and top scores on entrance exams. In addition, room and board charges have also outpaced inflation, doubling between 1980 and 2014.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields. These three courses are complementary and can also be taken separately.

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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

In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014.

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Designing ways to move beyond diversity

The Hechinger Report

By 2014-15, 32 percent was multicultural. That number rose to 444 in 2014-15. In 2005-06, 16% of students at Denison were considered multicultural; by 2014-15, 32% were. Similarly, in 2005 there were 257 recipients of Pell Grants, which go to low-income families; that number rose to 444 in 2014-15.