ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

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 According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Reflecting the pressures on campuses today, a recent study indicates eroding confidence in higher education: In late 2022 only 55 percent of Americans surveyed said that “colleges and universities were having a positive effect on the way things were going,” compared with 69 percent in early 2020. How do we reverse this crisis in confidence?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Even individuals who were enrolled in college in 2020 but left without a degree are now eligible for federal emergency aid. Sara Goldrick-Rab is a professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, president and founder of The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice and chief strategy officer at Edquity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

By March 2020, that number had reached one in five. Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Their recovery and survival, their health, education and well-being, is the latest test of our commitment to equity and justice.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2020

Towson University students remove their belongings from dorms as the school shut down days before the start of the scheduled spring break on March 11, 2020, in Towson, Maryland. Universities across the nation have closed through spring break as the novel Coronavirus spreads. Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The study, “ Relationships between an ADHD Diagnosis and Future School Behaviors among Children with Mild Behavioral Problems ,” was published online March 4, 2020 in the academic journal Sociology of Education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

What I like most about this book is that Moore explains how teaching Black history, something he’s done for three decades, was different during the 2020 racial uprisings, and he provides actionable insights for white people (or any non-Black person) to counteract anti-Blackness and racism in America.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. The pain from these debts is not felt evenly, researchers said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

So, too, is a new book by Tufts University sociology professor Natasha Warikoo , “Is Affirmative Action Fair? At the University of Georgia, for example, just 6 percent of freshmen were Black in 2020, compared with 36 percent of the state’s public high school graduates that year. The Myth of Equity in College Admissions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. Basic questions — Who should O.U. Now, he wonders, what’s next?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2020

I’m also a May 2020 graduate of a community college and an incoming student this fall at the University of California, Los Angeles. Liza Mejia, a May 2020 graduate of Crafton Hills College, was recently admitted as a transfer student to UCLA. I’m a 36-year-old single mother and a first-generation college student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

For recent college graduates, the job market in 2020 is shaping up to become one of the worst in recent memory. One of them is Liz Anderson, 22, who had hoped to move to New York City this summer and look for an entry-level nonprofit position in social work, after majoring in sociology and public health at St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 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. Savings and a loan covered living costs.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

trillion, the student debt crisis in the United States has exploded in recent years and has become a key electoral issue in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections. percent more debt than their white peers, according to a 2018 article in the Journal of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

For the past several years I have taught a sociology course to high schoolers in which we tackle some very controversial issues. I use inquiry as a way to teach basic sociological principles, but also to challenge the dispositions of my students. A Divergence of Interests: Critical Race Theory and White Privilege Pedagogy,” 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

The company has plans to add another 20,000 beds by the fall of 2020. The pricey new high-rises have one more unwelcome impact, said Remingtin Mickle, a senior at Purdue studying sociology and brain and behavioral science: They’re pushing up off-campus rents. Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science. Kirk: Okay, we get it.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

For the past several years I have taught a sociology course to high schoolers in which we tackle some very controversial issues. I use inquiry as a way to teach basic sociological principles, but also to challenge the dispositions of my students. A Divergence of Interests: Critical Race Theory and White Privilege Pedagogy,” 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, more than a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve large proportions of rural students have closed outright since 2020; some of the rural private institutions that remain are also axing majors. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling.

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Colleges and universities have good reason to be worried about uncommunicative students, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of sociology and medicine at Temple University who studies college students’ basic needs. Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Even before the coronavirus hit, schools were able to fill only about 54 percent of some 250,000 teacher vacancies each day, according to a survey of more than 2,000 educators released early in 2020 by the EdWeek Research Center. That’s disastrous to do that. Basically, you’re sacrificing qualifications because you think it’s an emergency.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Paddling is clearly an adult-centric practice that’s rooted in sociological and religious values. In 2015, NYC Service , a city agency focused on increasing volunteerism and civic engagement, announced the goal of engaging 30,000 youth ages 14-21 on new youth leadership councils working in policy and practice or service by 2020.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

I hear echoes of this argument when, for instance, Trump blamed Howard Zinn’s writing for inciting the riots during the 2020 uprising. One of the most fascinating parts of the book for me was how you develop this argument that Black education has been associated with criminality. Muhammad: I had not thought about this, Jesse.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

For politically oriented students, such campus organizations can be crucial parts of their college experience, said Amy Binder, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, which is dedicated to furthering civic engagement and informed dialogue.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I hear echoes of this argument when, for instance, Trump blamed Howard Zinn’s writing for inciting the riots during the 2020 uprising. You write, “Calls for greater African American access to public education, for example, were challenged by statistical arguments that education turned Black people into criminals.”

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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.

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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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JULY 24, 2022

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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