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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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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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

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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

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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

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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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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. And yet, we have this kind of false segregation of well, that pathway is for kids going to college, and that one is for kids who are just going to start to work.”.