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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Heather Hunter, a psychology major at Wichita State University who has a part-time job in a foster-care agency, said only four high school students in foster care showed up for a workshop to help them fill out that federal form required to qualify for financial aid. We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen.

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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 percent in 2017. percent in 2017. 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.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

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.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago. Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars. This is his third year in the profession.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Strangers introduced themselves when she sat in the courtyard.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to “ban the box” on public college and university applications, prohibiting school officials from asking whether an applicant has a criminal record. At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived.

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