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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Related: It used to be a notoriously violent prison.

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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

economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), thus far in 2023, the unemployment rate in the U.S. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., percent.

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023. degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in public policy and M.A.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

Moreover, Owolabi’s extraordinary ability to reach across contexts, time periods, literatures and even disciplines ranging from political science and sociology to history and economics sets the book apart.

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The Aeroroutes of Stuttgart

Anthropology News

Route—a space created from movement—is one of four types of spatial figure in sociology of space (as proposed by Martina Löw and Hubert Knoblauch ). Taking into account that construction projects have been one of the motors of urban development and economic growth, what would be the effect of not building?

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. A 2023 report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences concluded humanities majors’ incomes are 40 percent higher than those with a high school degree. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education.