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

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. It’s like we’re not getting the help or benefits we need.”

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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

JUNE 17, 2019

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.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

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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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

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

AUGUST 5, 2021

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

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. 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.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

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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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. It was they who were defying the odds.

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

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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