Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . Increasing the visibility and impact of our work [July 2, 2018]. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Previous MMMs. Related Posts.

Sociology 105

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation.

Geography 133

Geography Political Science Sociology History 133

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. From 2018 to 2023, the college recorded a 39 percent increase in Monmouth County high school students enrolling in its college-level courses. That push is evident at Brookdale.

High School 144

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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.

Anthropology 135

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

A 2018 Georgetown University study found that students who worked had lower grades and were more likely to drop out. Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. Working while in college is risky. The risk was especially high for low-income students.

Sociology 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

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.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

Amarachi Orakwue stands beside her poster summarizing research that she worked on at the Mayo Clinic, taken at the 2018 Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis. Photo courtesy of Amarachi Orakwue. Its share of Pell students is 39 percent. The association endorses common intellectual experiences.

Tutoring 111

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We were already fighting twice as hard to get where everybody else was,” said Yessica Flores, a 21-year-old psychology and sociology major at Virginia Commonwealth University. “We We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen. For Hispanic students, the percentage rose from 71 to 81. We had some momentum.

Psychology 143

Psychology High School Sociology Educational Technology 143

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years.

World Religions 121

World Religions World History Civics History 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the 2018-19 school year, black students met the state’s interim proficiency targets for English and math in only two districts: Madison County School District and Clinton Public Schools.

K-12 121

K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

Elementary School 139

Elementary School Education Middle School K-12 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

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. There is a direct correlation between building wealth and having a highly educated workforce,” he said.

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

They impact low-income students at a much higher rate,” said Charlie Eaton, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California-Merced and co-author of the report. The campus has lost more than 8,000 students since 2018-2019, with enrollment dropping from 33,500 to 25,000.

Sociology 125

Sociology Research Advocacy Digital Resources 125

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business.

Tutoring 132

Tutoring Sociology History Library 132

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I In his two years at Penn State before transferring to Princeton this fall, he rarely mentioned his military service. But he’s been more open about it at Princeton, which has 12 veterans, up from just one three years ago.

Political Science 109

Political Science Sociology High School Leadership 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

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. Gates Professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Department of Education in 1980. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

K-12 79

K-12 Elementary School Sociology High School 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. Photo: Bess Adler for The New York Times. Classes run from 9 a.m.

Library 65

Library Anthropology Sociology Elementary School 65

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By 2018, that number had increased to 75 percent, but was still far below the white graduation rate of 90 percent. For the most part we are starting to see less of a strong racial divide, but there is still some work that needs to be done,” said Celestine, who is also working toward a degree in sociology from McNeese State University.

Charter School 83

Charter School Elementary School High School Tradition 83

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Chantel Brown, a Brown University graduate, works at The Parthenon Group on March 14, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. But Brown cleaved to the bling she had: her family’s one-story brick home in a one-street subdivision with a fancy name, River Hills. Photo by Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor.

Economics 107

Economics Sociology Cultures Anthropology 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

The heightened inclusiveness seen since she took over in 2018 is not some caricature of femininity, all chitchat and smiles, she said. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. “When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture,” she said. It’s strategic.

Education 143

Education Education Policy Sociology Cultures 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

Sociology 111

Sociology Economics Middle School Government 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

On March 2, 2018, nearly 120 years later, a plaque with the University Greys’ history was added near the window as a way to “contextualize” the window’s place on campus. A stained-glass window depicting the troop was dedicated in their honor on the campus of Ole Miss, as the university is commonly known, in 1891. Instead, it will be renamed.

History 92

History Tradition Sociology High School 92

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

percent more debt than their white peers, according to a 2018 article in the Journal of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Disparities in student debt accumulation are increasingly racialized. Black students struggle with 85.8 This gap grows over time, increasing by 6.7 percent each year after graduation.

Sociology 88

Sociology Economics High School Education 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

At least 42 states have enacted student loan repayment or forgiveness programs since 2018, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. At least 42 states have enacted student loan repayment or forgiveness programs since 2018, mostly for professionals in specific areas of shortages or who agree to work in under-served areas.

Economics 143

Economics Sociology High School Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

In 2018 and 2019, school leaders and students recruited in Australia and Israel. The number of international students fell to 413 people, just 5 percent of undergraduate and graduate enrollment in the fall of 2018. Alharthi said his sociology class was all black, and he couldn’t have been more comfortable. We are all human.”.

Cultures 111

Cultures Government Sociology Artifacts 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

Humanities 145

Humanities Archiving Oral History Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed the California wildfires of 2018 on space lasers paid for by Jewish bankers. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University. Trump said people who chanted Jews will not replace us were very fine people; he dined with avowed antisemites like Nick Fuentes and Ye (Kanye West).

Education 102

Education Sociology Leadership Tradition 102