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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology.

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OPINION: When wealthy parents hold sway in public schools

The Hechinger Report

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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

The Hechinger Report

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. billion in economic activity. The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort.

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OPINION: If you can, study what you love instead of picking the most marketable field

The Hechinger Report

Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. There’s no doubt that scientific and technical skills provide a reliable path into the job market and a relatively riskless approach to economic security. Four years spent studying them carefully will generate priceless returns. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: Business schools’ new artsy edge

The Hechinger Report

That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. China and other economic rivals add them. All of this allows for stronger leadership, which does not signify only the ability to manage and oversee a group of people working together; it also means knowing when to follow others.

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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

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.