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Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. WILMINGTON, Del. But we will have to see.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. And many of her students’ parents do not speak English.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Political science. And that, I think, is a part of the politics of resentment.

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MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. In 2004, the late Harvard political science professor Sam Huntington made the argument that recent immigrants, particularly Hispanics, weren’t assimilating well into American society.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. It’s supposed to be the great equalizer,” she said.

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MARCH 10, 2023

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” It’s a contrast to her high school in Phoenix, where she didn’t have many Black classmates in her International Baccalaureate classes.

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MARCH 6, 2022

When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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APRIL 23, 2019

A graduate this year with a master’s degree in business is projected to earn a starting salary of $77,347, compared to $57,657 with a bachelor’s degree, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers ; in engineering, $82,589 versus $69,188; and in computer science, $81,466 compared to $67,539. “In Graduate students at St.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. he was a political science major with plans to become a lawyer.

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JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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MAY 21, 2019

The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black. Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. Related: Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Carlos Vega, an admissions recruiter from MIT, sets up a table for a college fair at Stone Memorial High School in Crossville, Tennessee. Rural students graduate from high school at a higher rate (90 percent) than their counterparts in cities (82 percent) and suburbs (89 percent). Department of Education.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Avilez is a high school senior at YES Prep Gulfton , part of a Houston college-preparatory charter school network. About 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school each year, but a staggeringly low 5 to 10 percent continue on to college, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Education.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Walking the hallways between classes at Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky, I dodge students whose heads are turned down to glowing screens. Brianna Crowley, former high school teacher, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Rob Redies, chemistry teacher, Fern Creek High School, Louisville, Kentucky. Here’s why.

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JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. Schwartzberg, New York University (Presenter) Simon J.

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MAY 30, 2024

Some students just aren’t going to college straight out of high school. Fewer college students are majoring in liberal arts subjects like philosophy or English and political science, like you did, Jon. And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school. Kirk: That disconnect appears to be widening.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. Of course, prayers continue in many public high schools, as the dissenting justices predicted they would. These practices were said to be establishments of religion.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve Austin Senior High School, in Houston. The exception was 96-year-old Phillis Wheatley High School.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Little of the economic boom that has transformed St. The schools have opened their doors to Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, to provide student and family counseling. Louis Center, is working with parents and high school students to get them into workforce development programs that will lead to family-sustaining careers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

German university enrollment rose by 22 percent as tuition disappeared, the Ministry of Education and Research reports — much faster than in other member countries of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD — while the number of Germans who opt instead for vocational education has declined. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

High school students collecting water samples on Flathead Lake. Braced on the deck of a 30-foot aluminum research vessel, four local high school students bent to the task of measuring the temperature, acidity and other characteristics of sparkling-blue Flathead Lake. . They can pick that up after school somewhere.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Political science major Tabitha Pitzer, 20, showed up here with a few close friends at 1:45 a.m. But the economic struggles of her hometown, Sprankle Mills, Pennsylvania, about two hours northeast of Pittsburgh, had made her wary of supporting Clinton, despite the Democrat’s vows to push for new jobs in clean energy.

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