The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2020
Nyla Pollard is a member of the women’s basketball team at The College of William & Mary , where she is double-majoring in sociology and elementary education. Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics. Sign up for our newsletter.
Dangerously Irrelevant
DECEMBER 17, 2018
They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) . I would encourage you to see how the following scholars are engaging online.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Julio Ángel Alicea is an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Camden. For example, in Pennsylvania, where I call home, the state’s funding scheme has been found unconstitutional for providing inadequate and unequal funding. million for a 5,000-student district.”
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
I probably called once a day,” said Francis, now a junior majoring in political science and sociology who plans to go to law school. Those kinds of obstacles get in the way of students everywhere, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Related: Just 3% of scientists and engineers are Black or Latina women. Here’s what teachers are doing about it.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. Austin Lewis, 21, said he’s had more black instructors in his last two semesters at Georgia State than he had in all his previous school years combined. “It Georgia State’s success has received national attention and numerous accolades.
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