Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Grafting ethnography onto journalism has been suggested for decades—it’s time to put it into practice.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

If asked to assess the current posture of higher education leaders across the nation, it would be reasonable to describe it as a “defensive crouch.” English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

When we see these outcomes, it’s easy to make the mistake of assuming that these students’ families value educational success more than other families do. One report from Harvard claims that Asian American families “prioritize education” (presumably more than other groups) and that this partly explains Asian American success.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While white parents can bring much-needed resources to urban public schools, many are often unmindful of both the structural racism that allowed them to accumulate these resources in the first place, and the aspects of those school communities that the long-standing educators, parents and students valued most before white families arrived.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

How to Create the Schools We Need , Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase [education]. Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. Phantom Warrior , Forrest Bryant Johnson [history]. Building School 2.0: The Shadow of What Was Lost , James Islington [fantasy]. Hope you’re reading something fun too!

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If parents and teachers do not trust one another, then no necessary steps might be taken for their child’s educational progress. You might also like this to give you time back to foster positive parent teacher relationship United States History Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Every few months, readers interested in higher education see yet another article on “college majors that lead to the highest incomes.” Liberal arts fields such as English and history routinely come in far below, suggesting that a life of genteel poverty awaits those who enjoy Jane Austen. It wasn’t going to happen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups. Educating our students about economic inequality will help us take a step in that direction. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The film also provides a clear picture of the arguments and history behind the specific lawsuits the court will soon hear, and shows how they have divided Asian American and other communities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The trend is catching on with policymakers and educators as they look for ways to spur college-going while also ameliorating high tuition prices.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In Tennessee, the house speaker and lieutenant governor have teamed up to explore rejecting federal education funds altogether. Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. million for a 5,000-student district.”

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Thank you, Nick.

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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. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

By cutting 13 liberal arts majors, such as sociology, philosophy and history, UWSP would also create and expand several other majors in business, engineering and science to attract new students and revenue. million deficit. Wisniewski was shocked. So were many of her peers. In 1967, one in five students enrolled in a U.S.

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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

MARCH 5, 2019

The New York City Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group has released its preliminary report outlining next steps for the city’s Department of Education to lessen chronic racial and social-class segregation in the public schools. We understand things in slightly different ways because of our histories and backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Higher Education. ” “The optimal outcome, of course, is for student to both work and complete a degree,” said Douglas, who is also a visiting professor of education at Trinity College in Hartford. But getting an education matters too. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 Adrian Huerta, assistant professor of education, University of Southern California. “In It’s a national crisis,” said Luis Ponjuan, an associate professor of higher education administration at Texas A&M University. “It Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

It is a liberal arts education, a great and rewarding investment for students who pursue it. The goals of a liberal arts education are manifold. Making unexpected connections, discerning the merits of an argument, finding patterns and dealing with ambiguity while focusing on a goal are some of the hallmarks of a liberal arts education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

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.” American higher education is composed of thousands of colleges and universities, with different track records and results. It’s the previous budgets that weren’t done correctly.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Moving his education online because of the coronavirus presents a much bigger problem for Cameron Pelton than it does for many of his Indiana University classmates. The closing of colleges and universities has disrupted the educations of millions of students. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. And how can educators and institutions change things? But, since the 1980s, political rhetoric has emphasized the need for less humanities and more STEM education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. In management science there are studies of the ideal size of corporations, and some in anthropology and sociology study the ideal size of villages.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

In anticipation of the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action, the court must exercise caution to avert detrimental impacts on the educational aspirations of Latino and Black students. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the intersectionality of race and education underscored my personal journey.

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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 I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Her parents, like many Mexican immigrant families, didn’t believe in taking out loans, even for education. They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. Anna Egalite, education professor at North Carolina State University. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

That’s why the liberal arts and business education must go hand in hand. Indeed, those who look down on the arts in favor of a solely quantitative education risk losing their edge.”. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. So it’s nice to be around other people who understand where you’re coming from, instead of being around people who don’t really know you or know the history.”. Read more about higher education. Now we just need for others to follow suit.”.

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. Higher Education. OXFORD, Miss. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Gullible, under-educated citizens, eager for easy answers to complex problems, were led to believe that one ethnic group and all intellectuals were to blame for their problems. The same attention to evidence and fact-based reasoning is taught in history, mathem­atics, science and sociology courses.

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