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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

They opened opportunities for economic and social mobility and moved my parents’ generation beyond the experiences of their grandparents and great-grandparents, many of whom, as first- and second-generation immigrants to this country in the nineteenth century, started their working lives as farmers or day laborers.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. That’s true for college students too.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. Part of that entails thinking of a question that can be answered with these methods and finding data to explore. Here’s a table of contents.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., In addition, the median income for U.S.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

> (2021). #> Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Vasquez, ed. #>

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.