The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. Through interviews, she’s found that some educators link AI to social media and cellphones. And last year, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

In a recent article looking at the challenges of police education across the nation, The Hechinger Report’s Caroline Preston called it “a moment of reckoning” that was leading some of those who train and educate police “to examine their role in preparing officers for a profession responsible for so much senseless violence.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

On Saturday, Golden, 59, graduated from Morgan State with a bachelor’s degree in applied liberal studies with a concentration in sociology – 41 years after she first enrolled there as a freshman. She earned a 3.8 GPA while getting her associate degree at the community college, and she made the dean’s list at Morgan State.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. What this whole crisis has done to higher education is just exposed the cracks that have been there for over a decade of financial mismanagement.” Other spending, too, continued to go up. Cash reserves sank.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. The pandemic and travails of remote learning walloped the education profession, worsening teacher morale and contributing to more people exiting the field. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We Sign up here.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The study acknowledged that reliable transportation has not been widely cited as a key to education, but called it “often the single thread holding together a precarious balancing act that allows the student to attend school while juggling multiple other responsibilities.”. “You It eats up a lot of your day.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Deborah Santiago, vice president for policy, Excelencia in Education. Read more about higher education. I reassure them,” said Reyna Rivarola. “I

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It has also allowed for new and more fine-grained biopolitical governing and created new “ technologies of the self ” and encouraged particular kinds of “care of the self”. There has been a proliferation of data in recent years due to the use and availability of digital devices in government, commercial and private life.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

Why It Matters: Homelessness and part-time work derail many students’ educations, leaving them in debt with no degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. The Topic: Some community college students are too poor to afford food and housing. About 14 percent of community college students are homeless, the survey shows.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s a principal reason more and more information about job opportunities and salaries is being made available to students and their families, most recently by the federal government, which this month expanded a feature of its College Scorecard website showing the earnings payoffs of 37,459 majors at 4,434 colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story about education in Nepal was produced by Global Press Journal and is reprinted with permission. Bikram Mani Tripathi, education expert Consequently, many non-Nepali speakers send their children to schools across the border in neighboring India. were non-Nepali speakers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. This is her third year in the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6

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Political Science Now

APRIL 26, 2024

Her ongoing work includes a co-edited volume on concepts, data, and methods in comparative law and politics, and projects examining institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, and how research methods are used in political science scholarship. for work, education, or commerce.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Higher Education. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. He says the university’s quality of education has declined, leaving the campus with “a crisis on our hands.” offered an affordable, quality education. Credit: Donovan Lynch. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I That’s out of about a million veterans and their family members enrolled in higher education under the GI Bill, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In his book The Birth of the Clinic Michel Foucault suggested that there was a “great break in Western medicine” in the 18th century when for the first time anatomy began to play a central role in medical education. For many years student physicians did not have to attend or practice dissections as they do today. Armstrong, D. Foucault, M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

Attracted by the chance of an education that did not require her to take out loans, Gonzales picked Cornell. “I Yet the federal Department of Education reports that 19 percent of students at Penn have to borrow, 11 percent at Yale and 4 percent at Harvard. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Curricular innovations include utilizing new textbooks or workbooks, creating a new active learning experience, and utilizing APSA Educate resources to improve face-to-face or online learning environments. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

As your students gain confidence in their ability to construct effective sentences, they’ll be better equipped to tackle more advanced writing tasks, paving the way for literacy success in secondary education and beyond. The appositive sentence structure is noun + comma + definition + comma + significance. Because, But, So Sentence Stems.

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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. Photo: Kim Palmer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. By 2008, education reformers had opened charters in Texas and New York with similar “college for all” promises. bill to pay for his education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They also share one abiding theme: Parents know the risk of dropping out of school and want desperately for their children to get through high school and beyond in their education. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

At the same time, student government, which has a hefty budget for student activities of nearly $900,000 (a lot of the money goes to guest speakers), changed the way it funded groups, giving priority to those that co-host events with other, different groups. Read more about Higher Education. It was chiseling away at that barrier.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It Higher Education. Last September, state higher education leaders met at a plantation in southern Mississippi and commended the effort.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This is a result of middle-income, largely white families choosing to cluster (read: segregate) in middle- and upper-income schools and neighborhoods in their pursuit of a good education for their kids. Becoming more educated by being more segregated, which we seem quite comfortable with, should be avoided. Life sucks!’”

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

He has contributed to many college-wide projects, including rewriting the colleges academic dishonesty policy, and has served in faculty governance as Chair of the Del Mar Faculty Council. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

By 2014, just about half of low-income high school students enrolled in college immediately, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. On a recent November evening, her mom shows up at Match for a conference with Spanish teacher Tiffany Kidwell.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Students are the experts on their own experience,” said Sonya Heisters of YouthTruth, adding, “It’s important that education decision makers from principals to superintendents, and from education funders to the education secretary listen to this feedback.”. Youth even have ideas as to how they should be governed.

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