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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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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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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education. I don’t think so.”.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major.

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

The Hechinger Report

. “The advantage of what I did is that income reported by parents is more reliable but I’m using different kinds of tests,” said Reardon, who admits there’s no ideal way to study achievement gaps over long periods of history with existing data. or a telephone answering machine.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

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.”.

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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

Sodi went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology at an Indian college. “I I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I As many as 123 languages are spoken in Nepal, a linguistic diversity evident in the multicultural Banke district, where 3 out of every 5 residents are non-Nepali speakers.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015.

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