The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s time we got off the sidelines to better explain and market to the public the prodigious value to teaching, innovation and the greater good that we offer. economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

During my college teaching career, I worked closely with several theater majors, smart people who did well in calculus class, but who dreamed of becoming actors in New York or Los Angeles. Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. Four years spent studying them carefully will generate priceless returns.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

Fast Company stated that while “ female-dominated jobs merit better wages regardless of men’s entrance, men’s participation in these jobs may enhance the job’s status and economic value.” The school enrolled me in a Child Development Associate credential program, which led me to learning everything I could about how children learn and grow.

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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. I am working really hard and I also have to teach my sons,” said El Hayouni. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. 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.

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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. He teaches a technology class at J.W. The district also offers culinary arts, sports medicine, health science, teaching and simulation and animation classes.

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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. A university shouldn’t be like a trade school,” Lovett says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

It’s also opened jobs for young men from Worcester high schools at grocery stores and at Amazon, FedEx and other delivery companies, said Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor at University Park, nearly two-thirds of whose students are considered economically disadvantaged. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Families in that suburb had similarly high levels of economic resources to support their children’s educational success, but their strategies were different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools. Values only go so far in helping us understand what people do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. His counselors reached out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

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. But he left with an agreement to be paid $3.7

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Much of that research, along with a smattering of programs elsewhere attempting to address the lack of diversity in teaching, has focused on minorities in general, or on black teachers and students, and not specifically on Hispanics. But the teaching profession hasn’t kept up. The share of U.S. Hispanics account for 21.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

When we break it down for them, they’re shocked,” said Andrea Cardinal, a lecturer who teaches art and design at the University of Michigan, which she also attended. “I The numbers are surprising and important because they’re true,” said Lawless, who teaches academic writing and freshman composition at Front Range Community College.

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

Related : One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. With her undergraduate degree in sociology and political science, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs — not to dis on serving jobs,” said Jackie Vazquez-Aldana, a second-year law student at St. Thomas University.

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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.”. And the responses come from students across the different majors.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Levy holds advanced degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies in Adult Education emphasis on teaching diverse at-risk learners and in Political Science, emphasis on Political Philosophy, earned at San Francisco State University (SFSU). degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in public policy and M.A.

Political Science 55

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

Unlike colleges where faculty tenure is determined in part by the research professors conduct in their fields, UMR awards tenure for research into how best to teach those disciplines. His goal was to build a physical prototype that can teach students how cells work by showing them what happens when a cellular calamity occurs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind … Our future economic vitality depends on this”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

Hochman and Natalie Wexler provides a comprehensive approach to teaching writing. For example: If economics students are reading about US trade barriers with Russia, a targeted prompt and response may look like this: Kernel Prompt: They prohibited this. This provides instructional focus and writing practice. .”

Sociology 52

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. That term, hard history, was coined by Teaching Tolerance and we thought, How can we take that philosophy, that ideology, and really apply it to the inquiry design model? You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. Thank you, Nick.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. For the most part we are starting to see less of a strong racial divide, but there is still some work that needs to be done,” said Celestine, who is also working toward a degree in sociology from McNeese State University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. asked Sherri-Ann Butterfield, senior associate dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and a sociology professor who co-teaches “The Wire” course. Why is that necessarily a lower quality or less rigorous? That’s not what we think.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Maitland Jones lost his job teaching organic chemistry at New York University after students signed a petition saying his course was too hard. You know, I’m an old timer, and I believe that there is value in, well, humanities, and a humanistic approach to teaching science. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

Humanities 89

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Almost all of them are for professionals in specific areas of shortages — mostly teaching and healthcare — or who agree to work in underserved areas. That leaves a smaller population of graduates, a decline that’s beginning to happen nationwide and that can result in labor shortages, slower economic growth and declines in state tax revenues.

Economics 143

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Stefanie Fernandez works for a company that has encouraged its employees to substitute teach in local schools. Fernandez is one of several Independent Stave staffers who have taken their employer up on an offer to let them spend up to one day a week substitute teaching in the Lebanon School District. Credit: Lebanon School District.

Middle School 141

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It’s the essential skills they say these fields teach, and that focus groups suggest employers want. But the School of Business couldn’t teach these skills. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.”. China and other economic rivals add them.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series , historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. Well, it’s an origin story, and the good thing about this — for teaching purposes, from a pedagogical standpoint — is sometimes these ideas about defined crime live up here. Some were not.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

These are not summaries of lectures are broader reflections on some of the issues hooked around examples or news stories which are not necessarily covered in the teaching. America, Trump and the West in general are not keen to give up control over communication networks and the political and economic benefits they bring.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

This session was the latest in our monthly Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class series. And I want to let you know that today’s class is hosted by the Zinn Education Project, which is coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change as part of our Teaching for Black Lives Campaign.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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