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College admissions is already broken. What will happen if affirmative action is banned?

The Hechinger Report

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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The paradox of working while in college

The Hechinger Report

Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. The researchers focused on more than 160,000 students under 25 who started either a two-year or a four-year degree program between 1999 and 2008 and continued to track their earnings through 2014.

Sociology 111
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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state. There is a direct correlation between building wealth and having a highly educated workforce,” he said. Reilly’s first day is Aug.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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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.