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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Oil and gas companies and their affiliated foundations finance climate and energy research, sit on university governance boards and host student-recruitment events on campus, the report notes.

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The correlation is r = -.68 Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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OPINION: Tribal colleges, lifeline to rural and disenfranchised Native communities, need our help more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. billion in economic activity.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

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It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. Introducing more AI to classrooms, at least in the short term, implies teaching students using screens and virtual learning, argues Rina Bliss, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University.

Sociology 131
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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

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Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 You might also like this to give you time back to foster positive parent teacher relationship United States History Course $ 200.00

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, sociology, political science and other subjects.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.