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JANUARY 23, 2023

Academic research has also found “ substantial evidence ” that the proportion of females in an occupation affects pay because we as a society don’t value work done by women. Related: Finding child care is still impossible for many parents Thirty years ago, I began my own professional journey as a preschool teacher.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. Her research interests include municipal election reforms, the structure of local electoral management bodies, and teaching and learning in political science. in public policy and M.A. She holds a B.A.

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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

MAY 18, 2020

Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. This story about U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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. Early-20th-century research in the U.S. Ripley popularized the saying, “Africa starts at the Pyrenees.” railway policy.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

billion in economic activity. Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Now, due to the pandemic, Tribes are dealing with an estimated loss of more than $4.4

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model.

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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

APRIL 6, 2020

One of them is Liz Anderson, 22, who had hoped to move to New York City this summer and look for an entry-level nonprofit position in social work, after majoring in sociology and public health at St. Like it or not, this wave of acute economic hardship is going to force career readiness and outcomes into the equation even further.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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MARCH 17, 2021

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I The pandemic has dealt additional economic blows to colleges during a time when they were already worried about declining enrollment and the fiscal health of their institutions. Progress has been slow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

More than a quarter of students dropped out between their first and second years in college in 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — the highest level in nearly a decade. I probably called once a day,” said Francis, now a junior majoring in political science and sociology who plans to go to law school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. That was a hard pill to swallow.”. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts. But students from all economic and racial backgrounds have helped the district rack up accolades and earn an A rating like some of its wealthier neighbors.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. From this, the researchers created their own socioeconomic index. It’s important to know.

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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.”. Bringing the Disciplines Together. We wanted to put together a new course on “materials.”.

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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 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

And key to UMR’s rise as a mint for medical talent is its partnership with the Mayo Clinic, which hires a good number of its graduates and provides research opportunities for others. In UMR’s biology and English courses, instructors assign their first-year students research papers that weave together both disciplines.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

And graduate students are as much as six times more likely to suffer mental health problems than the general population, according to new research. With her undergraduate degree, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs,” says Vazquez-Aldana. People expect that once you finish your undergrad, you go to grad school.”

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

She’s referring to decades of research on teacher diversity showing that students perform better when they are exposed to teachers who look like them and who have similar backgrounds. Research has largely supported the theory that a more diverse teaching force is good for students. In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Related: Column: New research offers home to first-generation college grads. “I I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. “I

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But following that, I decided to take three years and immerse myself in the study of social capital research for my doctoral dissertation. Having conducted much more research, including my own mixed-method study, I’m more convinced than ever: Schools need to focus more on social capital development. Here’s a taste of why — and how.

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JULY 14, 2022

And when researchers asked American parents of school-age children how important it is that their children do well in school, most gave it the highest level of importance; in fact, on average, Black, Latinx and Asian parents ranked it as more important than white parents did. Values only go so far in helping us understand what people do.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. I could utilize the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media software tools for historical research.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. They have an economic impact. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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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. That already limits their choices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “In Now he plans to get a degree in sociology. Department of Education.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

In contrast to earlier studies of urbanism, urban anthropology applied anthropological concepts and field research methods to urban populations where the city was the context of the research rather than the phenomenon under study. Other research focuses on systems of formal social control such as police, courts, and prisons.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Even before the coronavirus hit, schools were able to fill only about 54 percent of some 250,000 teacher vacancies each day, according to a survey of more than 2,000 educators released early in 2020 by the EdWeek Research Center. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In New Orleans, Dillard University, the University of New Orleans and Delgado Community College have started conversations and shared data with local economic development organizations and transit agencies to coordinate regional transportation solutions for students. Now you can finally see the numbers. American University in Washington, D.C.,

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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. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To It should absolutely not be about only numbers and revenue,” said another, Jocelyn Moylan.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Economic Growth. UNESCO reports that to achieve and accelerate continuous economic growth, at least 40% of the population must be taught to read and write. Research has repeatedly shown that children develop a love for reading when they can choose their own reading materials. (12) The payoff for society is even greater.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, that predispose people to certain diseases.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

And the University of Pennsylvania “is committed to making its practical, powerful and flexible Ivy League education available to the best and brightest students, regardless of their economic circumstances.”. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.

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