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A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought

A Sign Of The Times: Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields Title: Embracing Statistics: A Pillar of Modern STEM Education In today’s rapidly evolving landscape of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), statistics is emerging as a pivotal discipline, transcending its traditional role as a mere supporting tool.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

ED Surge

Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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How colleges can help their students out-compete robots 

The Hechinger Report

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Students can combine computer science with linguistics, English or journalism, for example, or they can mix cybersecurity and economics.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

At Minerva, we have just five majors: Computational Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Business, and Arts and Humanities. Though they may not have the luxury of building from scratch, traditional universities could design degree pathways more like Minerva’s: interdisciplinary and project-based.

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OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for the world of work

The Hechinger Report

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. In the final stage of the project, students situated medical AI tools in a broader social and economic context.