The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. Criminal justice.

Education 135

Education High School Government Economics 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

For much of the last century, living on campus was considered “an integral part of the educational pathway,” said Carla Yanni, a professor of art history at Rutgers University and author of a new book about the history of dormitories at American colleges and universities. Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

Sociology 105

Sociology History High School Education 105

C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. What does this look like?

Controversial Topics 49

Controversial Topics Sociology Pedagogy Social Studies 49

C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. A Divergence of Interests: Critical Race Theory and White Privilege Pedagogy,” 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Azariah Journey is a second-year graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is cutting 20 degree programs. “Is

Geography 138

Geography Political Science Sociology History 138

Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Graeber died suddenly in Italy in 2020 at the age of 59. He also suggests a Universal Basic Income is the best way to lower inequality while avoiding an increase in BS jobs.

Anthropology 134

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But that decades-long ban will end this summer, thanks to legislation passed in 2020. Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business. So one day in 2020, Conner let Cavitt know that he was done with Project Rebound and would be moving out of the house. “I

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Tutoring Sociology History Library 133

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self. Muhammad: I had not thought about this, Jesse.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students.

Education 105

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

An offshoot of a national initiative of the same name run by nonprofit Interfaith America, the program was started in 2020 to help shrink political and cultural divides on college campuses. The Bridging the Gap program is one of at least a dozen such initiatives launched at colleges and universities since 2020.

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