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. Under the old felony murder rule, which California reformed in 2019, Conner was charged as if he’d pulled the trigger.

Tutoring 132

Tutoring Sociology History Library 132

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. I struggled with that.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. That money was part of more than $4 million that Minnesota State allocated in performance-based funding in 2019 to colleges that exceeded their expected outcomes for all students, and for students of color, in particular.

Tutoring 86

Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 86

Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Rentfrow et al., Got a strange map?

Psychology 52

Psychology Geography Cultures Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”

Education 143

Education Education Policy Sociology Cultures 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It feels like a broader attack on truthweve moved backwards, Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts who has written widely on affirmative action, told me. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research.

Cultures 75

Cultures Sociology Economics Government 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Fahad Alharthi is a recipient of the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission scholarship, which covers his educational costs at Tennessee State University. But he did have a scholarship guaranteed by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, to use to learn English and then attend a U.S. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report. college. .

Cultures 110

Cultures Government Sociology Artifacts 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration prohibited providers in the program from referring patients for abortion except in rare cases, leading almost 1,000 clinics to leave the program. She said a negative cultural judgment prevailed there, even in a school specifically for these students.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring High School Sociology Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The program, organized by a Kentucky-based nonprofit of the same name, had brought together 14 students from four universities in the state — a mix of secular, religious, urban and rural institutions — as part of a semester-long course on developing ways to communicate with people of different races, religions, cultures, politics and worldviews.

Teaching 105

Teaching Sociology History Cultures 105