The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Moreover, those proficiency levels are closely tied to students’ family economic status and their entering levels of proficiency in English and math. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. Related: Do U.S.

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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.

Archiving 37

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

Anthropology 142

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. In 2015 , students were asked if they had their own cell phone and an internet connection. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

In 2015, Rutgers-Newark’s six-year graduation rate was 64 percent for black students and 63 percent for white students, according to administrators, compared with 40 percent and 61 percent respectively at public institutions nationally. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. That’s not what we think.”.

Tradition 94

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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