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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

We already have good evidence that 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. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out

The Hechinger Report

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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DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology for Beginners

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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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

And she was running for the school’s governing board. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “ parental rights.” We all put in countless extra hours.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. During the 1930s this school, along with Robert and Helen Lynd's ground-breaking work on Middletown (1929, 1937), and W.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I had sent to war, those students, as government leaders later in life, would think harder before sending other people’s children off to war.”.