Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Universities, which once were given the benefit of the doubt, say the people scouring their books are misinterpreting what they’re seeing, sometimes for their own purposes. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. The institute is a liberal think tank associated with the Franklin D.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” Philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. The researchers had to figure it out from surveys the students filled out about their homes, such as the number of books they have, and about their parents’ education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

A college education is supposed to accelerate economic mobility, not throttle it. percent more debt than their white peers, according to a 2018 article in the Journal of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Related: Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books. With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When held in November, it was standing-room-only in the small room they booked. I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

And the University of Pennsylvania “is committed to making its practical, powerful and flexible Ivy League education available to the best and brightest students, regardless of their economic circumstances.”. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. The maps shown here are all the work of William Z.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

I’ll share practical strategies from the book The Writing Revolution and introduce sentence imitation exercises from my own program, Writing Blocks , to help your secondary students become strong writers one sentence at a time. .” Crafting sentences is a skill at the heart of all types of writing, from essays to research papers.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

Yet, as political theorist Rouven Symank argues, situating the concept of solidarity within its historical context reveals how it interacted with the political project of integrating colonies into imperial economic and legal orders. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It’s a well-known fact: A child who develops a love of books and reading will recognize a lifetime of benefits. (1-4, Economic Growth. UNESCO reports that to achieve and accelerate continuous economic growth, at least 40% of the population must be taught to read and write. 3). (16,17). The payoff for society is even greater.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2025

This trend has accelerated in recent years for wide-ranging and multiple reasons: smaller households and busy lifestyles, an aging population with low birth rates, decreasing rates of marriage and cohabitation, a weakening of ties to Buddhist institutions, and economic decline since the 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Sarah Igo: What that means is I study the history of ideas rather than, say, public policy or economic development or wars or that kind of thing. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It feels like a broader attack on truthweve moved backwards, Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts who has written widely on affirmative action, told me. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research. Related: Will the Rodriguez familys dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Even the outside experts who reviewed the Integrated Business and Humanities program for accreditation purposes, including a member of the McMaster sociology department, unanimously recommended dropping the word “humanities” from the name. China and other economic rivals add them. Related: While liberal arts decline in U.S.,

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. This year, Gov.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This would see Africa being freed up from the economic control of Western countries and potentially represents a reshaping of the global order but has been characterised as a “ digital silk road ” which increases the power and influence of China.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. Some were not. Wells’ campaigns against lynching and I was fascinated by W.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Wendy Luttrell, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the book “Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens,” said an increase in pregnant and parenting teens is a “commonsense prediction.”

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