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

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In 2017, Ricardo lost his job due to the devastations of Hurricane Maria. Hansen is a professor of sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; Nazli Kibria , is a professor of sociology at Boston University.

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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.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

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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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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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OPINION: How to use university endowments for coronavirus recovery

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With $600 billion in assets as of 2017, the combined value of U.S. Charlie Eaton is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced. To weather this crisis and speed a national recovery, universities also need to use some of our nation’s biggest untapped rainy-day funds: their endowments.

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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. That was a hard pill to swallow.”. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school.

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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

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When there’s difficulty filling classrooms, often the reaction is, let’s lower the bar, let’s widen the gate,” said Richard Ingersoll , a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He appealed to graduates from 2017 on to apply to substitute in the district, and explained how to begin the process. “If