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AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. And while most are avoiding the bad optics of raising tuition this year, history suggests these costs will eventually fall to students and their families. Other spending, too, continued to go up. Cash reserves sank.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. government as well.

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AUGUST 12, 2023

A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. He held various important government posts in the first decades of the 20th century, including Administrator of Labor Standards in the Department of War (1917-18). .” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop. Armstrong, D. Foucault, M.

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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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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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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. said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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 What I’m reading The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton.

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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. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Livingstone's (1976) analysis of the history of the sickle-cell genetic trait in West Africa remains a classic example of this phenomenon. Epidemics are usually characterized by high mortality rates and socioeconomic disruptions, and have been very influential in history (McNeil 1976).

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

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Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. psychology class. By the second semester, Barnes was on academic probation.

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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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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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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. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In our first session by way of an introduction we introduced and looked at a bit of the history of the Internet, World Wide Web and big data. Western governments are suspicious that Huawei might install spying technology or software into the network and uses for their own advantage.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. And since these inequalities have origins in funding malpractice, to remedy them, the government must use targeted funding for racial equity going forward.

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MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

At stake is not only whether people will be able to interpret Shakespeare, say advocates of subjects including English, history, language, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts. We didn’t have the in-house expertise to teach philosophy and history and English.”. Canadian border. It’s pressure from parents. There are no jobs.’

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The major impediment to success is failing government schools that African-American and Hispanic children in the inner cities attend. Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate despair-anxiety-indignation. It’s a truism that campaigning and governing require different skill sets.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., 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. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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