Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. Phantom Warrior , Forrest Bryant Johnson [history]. An Echo of Things to Come , James Islington [fantasy]. Into the Looking Glass , John Ringo [sci fi]. Hope you’re reading something fun too! No related posts.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

For example: If economics students are reading about US trade barriers with Russia, a targeted prompt and response may look like this: Kernel Prompt: They prohibited this. Have them write descriptive sentences in science, complete sentences in history, and use sentence frames in math explanations. ” “When?”

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. According to historian Benjamin T.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Liberal arts fields such as English and history routinely come in far below, suggesting that a life of genteel poverty awaits those who enjoy Jane Austen. Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. Study broadly and deeply with other serious students and find a caring mentor. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. We’re just like lost causes if we’re from small towns.”.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’ve also got four preps, AP World History, Sociology, Psychology, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Sociology Blended Notebook Table of Contents. Economics and World History are fully structured this way. I’m in the process of updating all of the Sociology units. It’s tip 2 in this post.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. 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.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. In 1933, he was elected president of the American Economics Association. Ripley popularized the saying, “Africa starts at the Pyrenees.” ” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

It’s also opened jobs for young men from Worcester high schools at grocery stores and at Amazon, FedEx and other delivery companies, said Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor at University Park, nearly two-thirds of whose students are considered economically disadvantaged. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. China and other economic rivals add them. “Indeed, those who look down on the arts in favor of a solely quantitative education risk losing their edge.”. Learning foreign languages is important as well.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. It is not a “history course for engineers.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

I taught in Rwanda, at its national university, in the mid-1980s and left the coun­try just as the economic situation began to spiral out of control. We too are divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, into camps of globalists and isolationists. See Germany in the 1930s or Rwanda in the 1990s for historical proof of that.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Richard Ingersoll, education and sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, detailed the numbers in “The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education,” a recent report published by the Albert Shanker Institute, a nonprofit organization endowed by the American Federation of Teachers, a union.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Families in that suburb had similarly high levels of economic resources to support their children’s educational success, but their strategies were different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. Values only go so far in helping us understand what people do.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

These studies usually include the systems of bureaucratic regulation, urban politics, welfare administration, urban renewal, and economic conditions that shape local communities. Others examine the disproportionate growth of primate cities at the expense of regional towns as a result of economic development in Third World countries.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Livingstone's (1976) analysis of the history of the sickle-cell genetic trait in West Africa remains a classic example of this phenomenon. Epidemics are usually characterized by high mortality rates and socioeconomic disruptions, and have been very influential in history (McNeil 1976). that predispose people to certain diseases.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In our first session by way of an introduction we introduced and looked at a bit of the history of the Internet, World Wide Web and big data. America, Trump and the West in general are not keen to give up control over communication networks and the political and economic benefits they bring.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

By cutting 13 liberal arts majors, such as sociology, philosophy and history, UWSP would also create and expand several other majors in business, engineering and science to attract new students and revenue. million deficit. Wisniewski was shocked. So were many of her peers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Before the likes of Trump, and even now with a so-called centre-left government, there’s still this misconception that the existence of folks like me is an ideology, whereas our existence is reality based on sound history, science, and sociology. Pre-colonial evidence and indigenous cultures show that we have always been here.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

Moreover, Owolabi’s extraordinary ability to reach across contexts, time periods, literatures and even disciplines ranging from political science and sociology to history and economics sets the book apart.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. Some were not.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate despair-anxiety-indignation. Aaron Pallas is professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The model for President-elect Trump’s proposal may be the urban charter schools of Boston and New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

At stake is not only whether people will be able to interpret Shakespeare, say advocates of subjects including English, history, language, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.”. China and other economic rivals add them. Canadian border.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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