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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Rural-serving institutions are defined by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, which Koricich directs, as those that share such characteristics as being located in counties classified as rural and a certain distance from metropolitan areas. Eastern Kentucky University shut down economics and other majors.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

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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Solidarity’s Colonial Dimension

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. “ Solidarity, in this period, became both a subject of sociological study and a tool for promoting a less coercive form of colonial governance.”

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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

The Hechinger Report

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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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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Why Schools Should Focus on Social Capital Development — Not Just Skills

ED Surge

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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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

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.