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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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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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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.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

ED Surge

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. The report, “ Wicked Opportunities ,” also calls for more investment into research and development. Now, some early data suggests that AI could indeed widen disparities.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. R&D performed by the entire U.S.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. vi] These scholars are the generations of researchers inspired most notably by Robert Redfield’s Folk Urban Continuum. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]