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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research. In these environments, students demonstrated smaller learning gains than in cases where the decorations were removed (Fisher, Godwin, & Seltman, 2014).

Research 357
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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. The university did not respond to questions about the status of this process.

Geography 130
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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. He said he believes Missouri’s program, first offered in 2014, was among the first in the country. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready for college. That matters

The Hechinger Report

Here’s what we do know: During the 2014 academic year, at least 569,751 students at 884 public two- and four-year colleges across 33 states were deemed not ready for some college-level work. Although we only used data from the 2014-2015 academic year in our analysis, we’re making all the datasets we gathered available here.

K-12 102
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College admissions is already broken. What will happen if affirmative action is banned?

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, Blum began the suit against Harvard for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants like Michael Wang , a one-time high schooler from California who began raising awareness about what he saw as discrimination against Asian Americans in the college admissions process after he was rejected by Harvard the previous year.

Sociology 124
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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 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 was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.