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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

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.

Sociology 80

Sociology Education Policy Leadership History 80

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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.

K-12 106

K-12 Sociology High School Education Policy 106

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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.”.

Sociology 103

Sociology Education Policy Cultures Research 103

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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.”

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Classroom Management Education Policy Sociology 112

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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.

Sociology 97

Sociology Education Policy Cultures Education 97

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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.

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

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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.

Sociology 108

Sociology Tutoring Research High School 108

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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.”.

Sociology 102

Sociology Humanities High School Economics 102

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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.

High School 89

High School Sociology Charter School Tutoring 89

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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.

Tutoring 87

Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 87

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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.”)

Sociology 131

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 131

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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.

Middle School 141

Middle School Public School Economics High School 141

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APRIL 30, 2025

The courses removed from Floridas 12 state universities were primarily sociology, anthropology and history courses. The governments job should be providing the funding for education, but not determining what is worthy of being taught, Abrams said.

Political Science 82

Political Science Government Sociology History 82

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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.

Charter School 85

Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 85

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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.

Sociology 102

Sociology Political Science Tutoring History 102

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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.

Charter School 107

Charter School Education Sociology Tradition 107