Cultures Middle School Sociology 
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2020
This policy change creates a real test for more affluent white parents who say they live in New York City because of the diversity and then send their children to segregated schools. It’s time for NYC white parents to sign up for virtual tours of middle schools that were not otherwise on your list.
TeachThought
APRIL 4, 2024
They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. Student learning can then be measured through standardized testing.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 5, 2019
I remember another white parent, when she learned that my son was not going to the most selective, predominantly white middle school in our district, looking at me in disbelief and saying, “I thought he had high tests scores?”. In his middle school mind, being selective in and of itself did not make a school “good.”
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 24, 2018
This can lead to trouble in schools, but of a distinct kind. We saw this firsthand during the research for our recent study of an affluent school district in the Northeast. This kind of conflict between school districts and affluent parents is not unique to Kingsley. and they sued in Forsyth County, Ga.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 25, 2023
Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In 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. Last year, teachers earned just 76.5
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