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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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

ED Surge

In contrast, Coleman argued that social capital is a powerful force that activates class mobility, with students leaping over the economic divide, some waking up transformed by the American Dream after college. Will they be set free to overturn barriers imposed by their social and economic status?

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What I’m working on this summer for AP Economics…

Michelle Wood

New Notes for the Krugman Textbook I’m creating AP Economics (both Macro and Micro) notes for Krugman’s Economics for the AP Course Third Edition textbook. AP Economics Pacing Guides I’m working on pacing guides for both AP Macro and AP Micro. Notes will be published in my TPT store as I create them.

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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education). This is how we will be able to better foster prosperity and facilitate our nation’s promise of economic mobility.

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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face.

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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. The post Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality? Its newly minted honors program doesn’t consider SAT scores for admissions.