The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

She has published several books (authored and co-edited) and multiple articles on comparative law and courts, as well as on field research and research transparency. Castañeda Pérez is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of law, sociology and political science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958. He authored two books with Virginia H.

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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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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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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. These three courses are complementary and can also be taken separately.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

I also have them for Civics or Sociology. I use these super strong magnet shelves to showcase books related to our current unit from my classroom library. Course-Specific Key Concepts & Skills – You may also want to highlight things specific to your courses, like these Historical Thinking Skill posters for any history class.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

The modern scientific concept of solidarity is frequently traced to the French sociologist mile Durkheim, who, in his seminal 1893 book The Division of Labour in Society , distinguished between mechanical and organic solidarity. Durkeim investigated mechanical solidarity not by reading history, but by reading ethnographies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”) Credit: Laura Pappano for the Hechinger Report For Prof.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In his book The Birth of the Clinic Michel Foucault suggested that there was a “great break in Western medicine” in the 18th century when for the first time anatomy began to play a central role in medical education. Probably the most important such technology is the vision of the doctor themselves. Armstrong, D. Foucault, M.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In particular, I looked at how technologies such as x-rays and MRI is, as well as more simple technologies such as books shaped how we understand bodies and health. 1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. Armstrong, D. Petersen, AR. and Lupton, D. London: Sage Publications.

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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. And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule.

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Political Science Now

MAY 14, 2025

Prof Sukhtankars research interests are in development economics, political economy, and public economics, with a focus on governance and the delivery of public benefits and services. His research investigates when and how government agencies, local communities and nongovernmental organizations work collectively to address societal needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2025

government. Department of Education and putting an end to any federal role in education by returning all governance and funding to the states. In large measure, our states still play a significant role in education via funding and governance, but before the federal role was cemented, the states were essentially in charge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

The Oklahoma Division of Government Efficiency, created around the same time as the federal entity with a similar title, counts among its accomplishments so far shifting to automated lawn mowers to cut grass at the state capital, changing to energy-efficient LED lighting and cutting down on state government cell phone bills.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Government officials in Missouri, Kentucky and Wisconsin have ordered public colleges and universities in their states to end consideration of race in scholarship programs because of the courts ruling. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The trend is similar in Canada, where humanities enrollment plummeted by more than 5 percent — the biggest drop of any discipline — in just the one year ending in 2015, also the most recent period available, and where the share of students majoring in the humanities is an equally low one in 20, the government agency Statistics Canada reports.

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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. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Western governments are suspicious that Huawei might install spying technology or software into the network and uses for their own advantage. While Huawei is an independent, employee company it is well established that the Chinese state has strong control over integration with all of their biggest companies.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Dr. Bashir Mobasher is a scholar of constitutional law and identity politics, specializing in governance and institutional design in democratic societies. and in the Department of Sociology at American University. His recent book is entitled Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation. earned his Ph.D.

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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. She’s really the first person, and she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction. The second is 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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