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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

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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College Major Myths

Digital Promise

Students who major in science, technology, engineering, and math fields, however, are usually congratulated on choosing a dependable, lucrative path. But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Look at the long term when you’re choosing what to study.

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

The Hechinger Report

But Rogers High, in an imposing building in the city’s poorest neighborhood, may be a tougher test for whether the idea can work with all students in this economically diverse city of roughly 200,000. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Some administrators get other extras.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

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. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

The default here is “american-political-science-association.csl”. stevepubs %>% print_refs () #> Curtis, K. The Big Five’s Effects on Political-Territorial #> Identification.” European Union Politics* 22(2): 202–26. Comparative Political Studies* #> 45(12): 1655–83. #> all ( is.na (.x

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