Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use. Combined with our academic training, we take an etic perspective that focuses on the big picture of AI use in higher education. There have been course-grained sociological studies on students perceptions of AI (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The cuts “take away from us, our education.” Rural Americans already have far less access to higher education than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to Hechinger’s free biweekly higher education newsletter. That kind of frustration is growing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. Most of the tools are free, and do their work in seconds with the click of a button.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 4, 2011

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself" - John Dewey There are many views on the role of schools and teaching in general. Education is everything. Millan''s Sociology class students are partaking in an experiment in which they are caring for an “egg baby” for six days, including the weekend.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

When designing the space, it’s important for educators not to overstimulate and thus detract students’ ability to focus but to provide enough stimuli to enhance the learning experience. Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. Steelcase Education.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. Segregation is a larger issue in society and it is affecting the endgame of education. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. link] Corriveau, K.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education has become a major battleground for the attempted anti-racist paradigm shift of diversity, equity and inclusion work; mirroring society, this work remains stuck in a cycle of advancement and retaliation. Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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Norton Learning - Sociology

OCTOBER 13, 2020

An accomplished scholar, award-winning teacher, and public sociologist, she has become well known for delivering conversational yet compelling translations of sociological theory and research.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In my opinion, one of the best things about our job as educators is that we can continually learn and grow. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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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. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Today, Gentry is the CEO of Partners for Rural Impact.

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ShortCutsTV

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime – is something teachers can exploit to demonstrate how sociological knowledge and research can be used to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make about the social world. (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

Just 41 percent of first-time, full-time freshman graduate four years after starting , according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Researchers there examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics on nearly 20,000 college alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2016. That’s lost income.”.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. For episode 2 of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Dr Lisa Long about the monumentally important sociologist and activist WEB Du Bois.

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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.” economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. How do we reverse this crisis in confidence? dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 1, 2025

The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post. Don’t thank me.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. In tandem, educators often have the ability to purchase or acquire materials that students do not have access to at home or otherwise.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2015

candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Department of Education is helping lead the way to support developers in translating education research into useful products, and testing products to make sure they lead to improved outcomes. Educators: what do you look for in a research-based product?

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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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ShortCutsTV

MAY 11, 2024

As with their Sociology counterpart, Lumen Learning also supply a range of Psychology PowerPoint Presentations to support their (free) online Psychology course and complement the equally-free Openstax Introduction to Psychology Textbook.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. After the 1954 Brown v. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

s middling performance on international assessments to claim a “ rising tide of mediocrity ” in American education. They have concentrated educators’ attention on the tested subjects and standards, though at the cost of reduced time devoted to other school subjects and goals. Department of Education.

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ShortCutsTV

JUNE 9, 2024

1979 is a key date in the development of education in England and Wales because it was in that year that Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and began a process of modernising conservatism, under both Conservative and Labour governments, that still, nearly 50 years later, exerts a vice-like grip on primary, secondary and, increasingly tertiary (..)

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I share this story not to encourage people to adopt African names, but because learners and educators should not have to attend graduate school to learn truths about pre-colonial Africa and American history. A lot of her work is, and this is the latest demonstration of her contributions to education. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2024

The premise of “free college” programs popping up around the country in recent years is that bringing the price of higher education down to nearly nothing will spur more students to enroll and earn degrees. But is that what actually happens? That can be a lot to ask a 17- or 18-year-old finishing high school to navigate. “We

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Their recovery and survival, their health, education and well-being, is the latest test of our commitment to equity and justice.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Educators and researchers say students pay the price. Fairfax County educators had to come up with new solutions. Rebecca London, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has studied what happens when educators add break or recess time for middle school students. They know what they need.”.

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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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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After nearly six years, I am pleased to say that I’ve accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas at Arlington in environment and sustainability, housed in the Department Sociology and Anthropology. I’m honored to have been selected to join the department alongside brilliant and kind scholars.

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