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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

The Hechinger Report

“When there’s difficulty filling classrooms, often the reaction is, let’s lower the bar, let’s widen the gate,” said Richard Ingersoll , a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment. I don’t think so.”

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. Washington University in St.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

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. Even with that, financial documents show, the company has yet to turn a profit , thanks to the high cost of recruiting new students.

Sociology 109
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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

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. This hollowing out of higher education in the heartland has largely gone unnoticed in cities and suburbs. Jon: Right, Kirk.

Education 131
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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

The Hechinger Report

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

Sociology 110
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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

From a macrosociological perspective, political-economic forces and cultural practices make people interact with their environment in ways that may affect health either by exacerbating disease problems or protecting people from disease. that predispose people to certain diseases.

Cultures 100