Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But students can be reluctant to use these sanctioned channels, or to show up in person for office hours, says Megan McNamara, a continuing lecturer in sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She says she used a Discord server as a student recently, in an online course she took at the campus. “I

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Kirsten Lindbloom, University of Wisconsin – River Falls Professor Kirsten Lindbloom (she/her/hers) is a faculty member in the sociology, criminology and anthropology department at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. in sociology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Professor Lindbloom completed her M.A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”. You have to make compromises.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. And how can educators and institutions change things? But, since the 1980s, political rhetoric has emphasized the need for less humanities and more STEM education.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science. for work, education, or commerce. Estefania Castañeda Pérez is a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, and received her Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Underneath that veneer of status, though, her extended family battled every cliché you’ve heard about rural life: low education levels, poverty and “an addiction to something.” Brown was accepted at 19 of the 23 schools to which she applied – including most of the marquee names in higher education. Her parents struggled with debt.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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Sapiens

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The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Conservative politicians today increasingly see social studies teachers as targets, attendees said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ‘s education supplement, Learning. . Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Classes run from 9 a.m.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But that knowledge is now limited to marginalized groups, in many cases, so I write here to capture some of those nuances, which I believe hold the potential for deeper anthropological and sociological exploration of the everyday, intersectional impact of climate change on marginalized groups in urban India.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, theyre very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors.

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