The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

While attention is focused on the price of tuition, said coauthor Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, much of the cost of attending college goes to food, housing, and other expenses. And many students said they can’t afford those.

Sociology 87

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

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. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

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.

Sociology 112

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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 97

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

in 2015 were white. During my 12 years of teaching sociology, social justice and critical race theory at the university level and in my role as a director of student diversity and inclusion, I have also seen students shift in their approach to diversity. A diverse faculty supports student inclusion.

Social Justice 83

Social Justice Sociology Library Professional Development 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

Sociology 109

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Although we only used data from the 2014-2015 academic year in our analysis, we’re making all the datasets we gathered available here. Even in the many states that do track this data consistently, different schools may use different cutoff scores on remedial course placement tests. The problem affects high school reform as well.

K-12 108

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

In 2015 , students were asked if they had their own cell phone and an internet connection. She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. or a telephone answering machine.

Sociology 110

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

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. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Sodi went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology at an Indian college. “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. I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I

Sociology 93

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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 The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

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.

Sociology 49

Sociology Social Science Archiving Political Science 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science. Kirk: Okay, we get it.

Education 131

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Between 2012 and 2015, more than two thirds of students in the accelerated developmental education model passed their college composition classes, compared to fewer than half in the traditional sequence. The result: fewer students stuck in remedial math, more students taking college-level math, and higher success rates in entry-level English.

Tutoring 91

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. In the fall of 2015, after Williams failed a third semester, she began to question whether college was the surest path to the life she wanted. But she was tired. Neither had had an easy time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

“For the most part we are starting to see less of a strong racial divide, but there is still some work that needs to be done,” said Celestine, who is also working toward a degree in sociology from McNeese State University. That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015.

Charter School 81

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

PLOS ONE , 2015) Strange Maps #1117 For more on geopsychology, see Tobias Ebert et al., Perhaps the still relatively young science of geopsychology will get its own shiny new building sooner rather than later. Research into the geographic distribution of the Big Five personality traits has also shown remarkable results for the UK.

Psychology 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Morehouse, Spelman, And Clark-Atlanta University Homecoming Parade at Morehouse College on October 24, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. Melissa Wooten, sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts. Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images. Related: Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show.

Sociology 111

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Federal Bureau of Prison staff members submitted recommendation letters on her behalf, and in 2015, the U.S. By 1994, nine out of every 10 prison systems offered classes for incarcerated people.

Education 112

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. He studied the transcripts and college applications of tens of thousands of students over seven years, from 2008 to 2015. And they’re right. “But I’m afraid that it is.”.

Sociology 70

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2015, after the school agreed to remove the state flag with its Confederate emblem from campus, students and alumni formed the Our State Flag Foundation to bring the flag back. The men doused her with alcohol and called her a black n *r.* Instead, it will be renamed.

History 88

History Tradition Sociology High School 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.” Kentucky does not have a law protecting recess.

Elementary School 109

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French and an M.A in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Political Science 64

Political Science Geography Sociology Professional Development 64

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Paddling is clearly an adult-centric practice that’s rooted in sociological and religious values. In 2015, NYC Service , a city agency focused on increasing volunteerism and civic engagement, announced the goal of engaging 30,000 youth ages 14-21 on new youth leadership councils working in policy and practice or service by 2020.”

Civics 103

Civics Civic Engagement Sociology Charter School 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students. percent of CSU students now finishing in four years , up from 19 percent in 2015. ( The rates have already slowly started to improve, with 27.7 The most recent available national average is 42 percent , the U.S.

Education 102

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: This is the 2015-16 catalog. Josipa Roksa: Students are not spending adequate time on academics and academic pursuits. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education. It has 591 pages.

Humanities 90

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

When Fahad Alharthi traveled from Saudi Arabia to southern California in April of 2015, by himself at 20 years old, he knew no English. Prairie View has since had a surge in Nigerian student enrollment, from 47 in the fall of 2015 to 106 in the fall of 2017, according to Eveadean Myers, executive director for international programs.

Cultures 111

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The proportion of students who major in the humanities in the United States has fallen from a high of nearly one in five in the late 1960s to one in 20 in 2015, the last year for which the figure is available, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Humanities 99

Humanities History Sociology Cultures 99

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

A 2015 report by the American Civil Liberties Union of California found that teen moms felt “pushed out” of their schools by educators’ shaming behavior. Its leader, Lisa Steven, anticipates an uptick in the number of students that groups like hers serve because of the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion.

High School 140

High School Tutoring Sociology Middle School 140

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy High School was given a D by the state of Oklahoma on its A-to-F Report Card for 2015-16, based partly on its 40% cohort graduation rate. The Nevada Virtual Academy has a 2015-16 graduation rate of 67%. The Idaho Virtual Academy’s 2015 rate is only 33%. Read more about higher education.

Charter School 106

Charter School Education Sociology Tradition 106