A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts. Students worked in pairs using Mac Books to record comments on a shared Google Doc. Groff’s Digital Journalism class researched and wrote stories, as per any other normal day in class.

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APRIL 23, 2019

With her undergraduate degree in sociology and political science, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs — not to dis on serving jobs,” said Jackie Vazquez-Aldana, a second-year law student at St. The post Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

She’s also author of the book “The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities.”. Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. “On The longer you’re in college, the more debt you’re acquiring. One more year of college is one less year working. That’s lost income.”.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. For episode 2 of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Dr Lisa Long about the monumentally important sociologist and activist WEB Du Bois.

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MARCH 6, 2025

After coming across an introductory physics book in the third year of his time in prison, he realized he didnt have the math skills needed for the science described in it. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Math helped Paul Morton after he left prison, he told me.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Throughout the book, Dillard shares her self-reflection from her travels to Ghana and subsequent returning every year for the past 30 years. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., and LaGarrett J. King, Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We

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MARCH 12, 2020

And more immediately, where would they store all their books, clothing and belongings? His own experience of feeling out of place led to the publication last year of “The Privileged Poor,” his acclaimed book on how elite college fail disadvantaged students. Where would they eat, once their cafeterias closed down?

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MAY 28, 2018

“Affluent parents might see rising income inequality as really making a winner-take-all economy and feel a strong push to give their kids every advantage they can,” said Daniel Schneider, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

So, too, is a new book by Tufts University sociology professor Natasha Warikoo , “Is Affirmative Action Fair? Later in the book, Warikoo summarizes the power elite colleges hold, noting that they “have a sacred quality, they symbolize the American dream” — one that too often eludes underrepresented students. Warikoo asks. “Or

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. Rollins also noted what has become obvious to anyone who watched the Netflix documentary on Singer or read books and articles about the case: “The conduct in this case was something out of a Hollywood movie.”.

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Political Science Now

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” Hamilton, professor and chair of sociology at the University of California at Merced and Kelly Nielsen, a senior research analyst in the Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of California at San Diego.

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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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MARCH 15, 2017

While attention is focused on the price of tuition, said coauthor Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, much of the cost of attending college goes to food, housing, and other expenses. And many students said they can’t afford those.

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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.”. Natasha Warikoo is professor of sociology at Tufts University and a former Guggenheim fellow.

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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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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Probably the best and most easily accessible source for writing by and about Marx’s the Marxists Internet Archive which houses a huge amount of material: www.marxists.org/ The text by Marx referred to most frequently in the episode is Capital (sometimes called Das Kapital): www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Also mentioned a couple of times (..)

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MAY 27, 2020

Students at Florida International University, including some pursuing master’s degrees in African and African diaspora studies, discuss a book about a massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians by the Dominican army in 1937. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 27, 2019

Reardon published his study, “ The Widening Academic Achievement Gap Between the Rich and the Poor: New Evidence and Possible Explanations ,” in 2011 as the fifth chapter in the book, “ Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances.

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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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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. In its current connotation, worldview is seen as a combination of the following information which social scientists can gather from the field (E.

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APRIL 25, 2023

In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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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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MARCH 29, 2021

in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the spring of 2020, some of these staffers’ children were offered three hours of live, interactive teacher instruction a day, whereas Kelley’s son was just read a book once a week. Others had something in between.

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JUNE 26, 2019

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. Disparities in student debt accumulation are increasingly racialized. Black students struggle with 85.8

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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.”.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Most of them don’t do it intentionally,” said one of the researchers, Joe Swingle, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College. “It New on-campus apartments at one university cost $1,074 per month for a room in a two-bedroom suite, compared to $832 to share a double in other dorms. It just sort of happens.”.

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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. They say students and employees haven’t asked administrators for explanations of the data.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” Nicholas Jacobs: The reason we call the book “The Rural Voter” is because we believe that there are a set of core motivating behaviors or attitudes that do distinguish rural Americans from non-rural Americans. Criminal justice.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

In 1961, Gerlach was hired as an assistant professor of anthropology and sociology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He authored two books with Virginia H. Gerlach was beloved by his graduate students, and one of them, Lisa Brandt, edited a festschrift in his honor in 2007.

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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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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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ShortCutsTV

JULY 23, 2024

Professors Wilkinson and Pickett’s “The Spirit Level”, originally published in 2009, is arguably one of the most important books on social inequality published in recent times, not just for the clear causal links it draws between inequality and a wide range of social issues such as crime, but also for it’s easy accessibility to students […] (..)

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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.

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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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MAY 7, 2022

It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.”

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