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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Rural-serving institutions are defined by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, which Koricich directs, as those that share such characteristics as being located in counties classified as rural and a certain distance from metropolitan areas. He said it’s hard to watch these students struggling with the questions, “Do I stay?” “Do

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Solidarity’s Colonial Dimension

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. “ Solidarity, in this period, became both a subject of sociological study and a tool for promoting a less coercive form of colonial governance.”

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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Political Science Now

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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OPINION: Tribal colleges, lifeline to rural and disenfranchised Native communities, need our help more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. Instead, TCUs have been systematically and severely underfunded since their inception.

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

ED Surge

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. Another report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education calls for more work to engage states on effective testing and implementation in their schools, and for the federal government to put more detailed guardrails and guidance in place.

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OPINION: Community policing, college courses and other ways forward for the nation’s largest police force

The Hechinger Report

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. Community policing in Europe has shown that successful partnerships can be made with other social-service agencies, like schools, local government officials, the business community and youth groups. One of us is a retired NYPD detective.

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Quantified Self and Digital Health

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

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.