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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Corriveau and Kurkul (2016) administered a study of preschool-aged students about how they choose from whom to learn. The purpose of the study was to see if a preschoolers’ preference in informer is related to SES (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. Low-SES students preferred the active voice.

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Longer road to the B.A. for many black students

The Hechinger Report

Researchers there examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics on nearly 20,000 college alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2016. Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. “On based think tank. The median time for Latinx students was four years, eight months and for Asians it was four years.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Research in teaching anthropology suggests that students learn and understand the subject better by being involved (Copeland and Dengah, 2016) and applying the knowledge both in theoretical and in real-world situations. Following this, I asked students to apply both Mauss’ and Sahlin’s theories to a real-life situation they have encountered.

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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

ED Surge

For example,” the paper argues, “a machine learning micro-credential might involve courses in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and ethics. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

With its state allocation deeply cut and its enrollment plummeting, the University of Alaska Anchorage in February proposed eliminating 17 degree programs , including English, theater, creative writing, sociology and environment and society. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To

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A surprising reason keeping students from finishing college: A lack of transportation

The Hechinger Report

has offered a transit pass since 2016. Sophie Goodman is a senior studying sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, also known as SUNY New Paltz, about 85 miles north of New York City. American University in Washington, D.C., A bus stop near Rio Hondo College.

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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

The Hechinger Report

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. This year, enrollment in its engineering courses was 44 percent Black and 44 percent white, compared with 31 percent Black and 63 percent white in 2016.

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