The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We

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JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Dr. Olukunle P.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

born white parents living in the same affluent East Coast suburb for my new book, “ Race at the Top : Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools.”. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

“No one was prepared for this kind of shutdown, and one of the consequences of that is that the attention is largely on what I’d call mechanistic things — going online, staying in touch with students,” said Karen Gross, former president of Southern Vermont College and author of the forthcoming book “Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door.” “The

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Initially he thought the best route to his goal would be to analyse dreams, as outlined in his famous book The Interpretation of Dreams , as dreams seem to be the time when the unconscious mind takes over. Perhaps the most significant and influential technology of psychology in the 20 th century is a book. and Horwitz, A.V.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Mendelson 1956): 1. Cognitive systems at the level of the scientific world view 2. Natural (biology, chemistry, physics) 3.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. BOSTON — Taryn Snyder’s third graders were leaning over their desks, scratching out short essays on what they’d done over the weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

. “The advantage of what I did is that income reported by parents is more reliable but I’m using different kinds of tests,” said Reardon, who admits there’s no ideal way to study achievement gaps over long periods of history with existing data. Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

For much of the last century, living on campus was considered “an integral part of the educational pathway,” said Carla Yanni, a professor of art history at Rutgers University and author of a new book about the history of dormitories at American colleges and universities. Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The chapter of his book devoted to gun violence and gun control is particularly compelling. Duncan devotes three of the 10 chapters in his book to the Race to the Top competition, the basis for my claim that he has been the most influential Secretary of Education in American history. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

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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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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

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. The book has been translated into many languages, and while it has been criticized for some rather broad generalizations, he clearly struck a chord.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2025

Based on seven years of research, my recent book, Being Dead Otherwise , explores the explosion of initiatives, businesses, and services generically referred to as ending activity ( shkatsu ). Editors note: This essay was adapted from the authors book Being Dead Otherwise.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop. Foucault, M. London: Routledge.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2023

And their divergent histories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of Black students who study at the nation’s most selective colleges. Charles explores the complex stories of the demographics of what she calls the rising Black professional class in her new book, “ Young, Gifted and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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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. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

At stake is not only whether people will be able to interpret Shakespeare, say advocates of subjects including English, history, language, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.”. Canadian border. As a Republican presidential candidate, Sen.

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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. But certainly for most of the history of the West these were not considered crimes against humanity. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors. And from her vantage point, Ida B. The second is W.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

Swantic objects to Floridas efforts to dictate what subjects universities can or cant teach: You cant erase history. Its definitely more political than it is fiscal or policy-oriented, said Selingo, who is also the author of several books on higher education. This is a way to control them, in a way.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

Conservative legislators across the country are passing laws to ban books and courses that espouse critical race theory — scholarship born in the 1970s that examines the role that racism plays in our daily lives. Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue. Credit: Bettman/Getty Images.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In our first session by way of an introduction we introduced and looked at a bit of the history of the Internet, World Wide Web and big data. These are not summaries of lectures are broader reflections on some of the issues hooked around examples or news stories which are not necessarily covered in the teaching.

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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. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban , said Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts University: By potentially reducing overall diversity on campuses, the court’s decision adds to the pressure on institutions to ensure that students from different backgrounds have meaningful interactions.

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