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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. She’s now recovered.)

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When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs

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The report’s authors called on “ school systems , school boards, mayors and governors nationwide to make urgent changes to shift the gender balance at the very top levels of education leadership.”. The heightened inclusiveness seen since she took over in 2018 is not some caricature of femininity, all chitchat and smiles, she said.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others.

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

The Hechinger Report

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. Thompson, whose father “was an illiterate coal miner” and mother only completed eighth grade, but who earned a doctorate in sociology, said raising educational levels is critical to prosperity in the state.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I In leadership and life, symbolism counts. In his two years at Penn State before transferring to Princeton this fall, he rarely mentioned his military service.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

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But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. After the schools were closed, they reopened under new leadership and improved rapidly. Department of Education in 1980. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.