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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

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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JANUARY 29, 2017

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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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America’s schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. That’s disastrous to do that. Some of them have received great feedback,” he said.

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MAY 7, 2022

It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.”

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JANUARY 18, 2017

This is the demand of some students, not others, and yet all students ultimately pay the price for this,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University, who studies the cost of college. Students such as Gatanna Andrade, back at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

One big surprise at Shasta came as the college worked with Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a national nonprofit group that seeks to improve higher education access and completion. There is a direct correlation between building wealth and having a highly educated workforce,” he said.

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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.”.

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APRIL 30, 2017

The photographs don’t spell out exactly how much money the respective schools will cost, but low-income students always bear the biggest burden, according to a recent report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Serena Walker-Jean, who wants to study sociology, also worries about feeling comfortable as a minority.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

For example, while students of color make up 14 percent of Minnesota high school grads, they account for only 7 percent of freshmen at the flagship University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, according to a report by the nonpartisan Institute for Higher Education Policy. Rethinking remedial education. Breaking down stereotypes.

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MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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. Education policy also worries her. I’m one phone call away from losing part of my family.”. Juan Santiago, 21, Oregon.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Related: Five misconceptions about Michigan education and Betsy DeVos. In turn, nominee DeVos’ staffers wrote answers that allowed her to be maddeningly vague on whether she would continue to support Obama-era education policies, and also on what she might do differently. Read more about higher education.

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