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Labeling kids with mild disabilities can backfire, study finds

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An earlier 2017 study found that the diagnosed children had worse reading scores in eighth grade than the undiagnosed. The study, “ Relationships between an ADHD Diagnosis and Future School Behaviors among Children with Mild Behavioral Problems ,” was published online March 4, 2020 in the academic journal Sociology of Education.

Sociology 135
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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

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The project aims to help teachers educate students about the structures of economic inequality and its human dimensions and foster greater understanding and empathy. In 2017, Ricardo lost his job due to the devastations of Hurricane Maria. Educating our students about economic inequality will help us take a step in that direction.

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

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They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

Education 145
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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

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Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art. Yet higher education has also kept building.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

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said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves.

Economics 130
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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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In late 2017, she was laid off. Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program.

Economics 144
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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

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Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. In 2017, Georgetown University acknowledged that it owed its existence to the slave trade; it apologized for selling 272 slaves in 1838 to finance the university. Vitter in June 2017, six sites were chosen.

History 96