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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

Researching Socioeconomic Status Outside Of The Classroom Clever and Miller (2019) held a study that looked at a non-traditional learning experience with college-aged students. The purpose of their study was to explore connections between SES and learning outcomes during service-learning (Clever & Miller, 2019).

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S. postsecondary institutions conferred about 5.1

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Chelsea Kelley explains new legislation to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in October 2019. Credit: Misty Padilla Feusahrens.

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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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Economists find free community college can backfire

The Hechinger Report

The researchers married previous scholars’ research on policy proposals to make college more affordable or improve college graduation rates with actual student data on college enrollment and degree completion and simulated what would happen under different scenarios.

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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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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live

Strange Maps

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Also, see a working paper on regional differences in personality published in 2019 by the geography department at the University of Marburg in Germany. Science says yes, and these maps show how. Rentfrow et al.,