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

The Hechinger Report

My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Drawing on data from the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But those same students don’t have many of the math skills that professors think they actually do need.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society. Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. For the past 25 years, U.S. Who would argue against it? It did not.

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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Political Science Now

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. She holds an M.A.

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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

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Around 370 B.C.,