Education Policy Government Sociology 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2017
While attention is focused on the price of tuition, said coauthor Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, much of the cost of attending college goes to food, housing, and other expenses. And many students said they can’t afford those.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2019
Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2019
“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2017
In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade-point averages and top scores on entrance exams. Serena Walker-Jean, who wants to study sociology, also worries about feeling comfortable as a minority.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”) Credit: Laura Pappano for the Hechinger Report For Prof.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.
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