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

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I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. The post Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the climate and education newsletter.

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

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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

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Earlier in the 2000s, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development described social capital as a space requiring further investigation to help students pursue higher education and careers. Through resources made available by connections — resources that can be mobilized through ties in the networks.

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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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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

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It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. Introducing more AI to classrooms, at least in the short term, implies teaching students using screens and virtual learning, argues Rina Bliss, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University.

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

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economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. 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., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

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iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. This relationship, and the prevailing economic forces that impinge upon the countryside, have stamped certain qualities on the peasants and largely determine the underdog position in which they continue to live.