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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

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Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Instead of caving in, educational institutions should double down on DEI efforts. The lack of instruction in these fields in K-12 education can help explain why there are such strong attacks on DEI.

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

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Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. This story about school ratings was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Study: Half or more of community college students struggle to afford food, housing

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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.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready for college. That matters

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The problem with delayed, messy or missing remediation data isn’t just about a state’s ability to track remediation at its colleges, said Regina Deil-Amen, a professor of higher education and sociology at the University of Arizona. The problem affects high school reform as well.

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The business decision segregating college students by income and race

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And many students aren’t, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at Temple University and co-author of an ongoing six-year study at 42 public universities and colleges of practices that promote division or equality. “You likely came from a place where everybody looked like you. It just sort of happens.”.

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OPINION: Iowa offers the nation some lessons about graduating incarcerated students from college

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Courses range from “The Sociology of Sport” to “Songwriting and Singing in a Prison Choir” and are primarily taught in person through the University of Iowa or through an associate-degree program with Iowa Central Community College.