The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s crunch time for thousands of high school seniors seeking spots at selective U.S. The film is a straightforward history lesson and explainer, and a great way to understand this highly fraught debate over fairness and meritocracy. The Myth of Equity in College Admissions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. Many observers categorize such schools as “liberal arts” institutions, and much real and virtual ink has been spilled on the value of a liberal arts degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School. And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a focus on diverse life histories, the project shows how one crisis can cascade into another, morphing into a constellation of social, interpersonal, aspirational and financial losses. For example, Ricardo, a Latino man in his early 50s, is a bartender at a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

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. Relatively few high school graduates have the education — or the inclination — for the years of college math and physics that engineering requires.

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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.

Middle School 138

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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. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Revere High School students eating and socializing in the cafeteria. Most days in Nancy Barile’s English course at Revere High School, a visitor might begin to wonder when the real class is going to start. Revere High School’s adjusted four-year graduation rate rose from 71.5 REVERE, Mass. percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. White, like many adult students, has quality work experience.

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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. I’m a former high school teacher, and professors have a lot more say in the decisions that impact their jobs,” he said.

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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.”. Aimee Chartier served four years in the U.S.

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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. Speaking of the state’s flagship campus, the University of Georgia, he added, “When I go to visit a school like UGA, which has way more white students, it doesn’t feel the same. I think that does something to your psyche.”. It feels normal.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Alondra Piña Mota remembers being too embarrassed to talk to her high school teachers or college counselors about how her family’s reluctance to borrow money might prevent her from going to college. One of his memories of school: “I was always raising my hand, waiting for them to call on me.”. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. born white parents, it was extracurriculars, even as they ensured their children were excellent students — although maybe not the very top in their high-achieving town.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

Related: Many flagship universities don’t reflect their state’s Black or Latino high school graduates The schools that felt familiar and attainable to me were community colleges and California State University (CSU) campuses, not top-tier public or private institutions. Erick Ramirez Manriquez is a sociology Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school. Sodi went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in sociology at an Indian college. “I I know all the Indian political history,” he says. “I But I don’t know who wrote the Nepali national anthem.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon focuses on family income and stitches together different tests over the decades, taken by students at different ages from kindergarten to high school, to document how well rich and poor students are doing. Related: Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33-country study finds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Kennedy High School in Paterson, New Jersey, my parents gave me two options: go to college or get a job. Although I was deeply unmotivated, I enrolled in Passaic County College where I excelled in English, psychology and sociology and did well in math and science. I married my high school sweetheart.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. The vast majority of these youth graduated from high school, which Duncan describes as “intensely gratifying.” Related: Duncan vs. Duncan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Jimmie Conner is an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton, studying sociology and business. Louis puts students in touch with sympathetic landlords who are willing to overlook their lack of a credit history through “an informal, pick-up-the-phone pipeline,” says Kevin Windhauser, the program’s director.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. So he compared men and women who otherwise had similar grades in all their other classes, even similar ACT scores and high school grade-point averages. And they’re right.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

For much of the last century, living on campus was considered “an integral part of the educational pathway,” said Carla Yanni, a professor of art history at Rutgers University and author of a new book about the history of dormitories at American colleges and universities. Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I teach US History and Sociology at a large, well-resourced comprehensive public high school that mirrors the racial and socioeconomic demographics of the United States. I thought teaching and our school systems were sustainable. When I graduated from high school in 2006, I decided to become a history teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

Humanities 90

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue. I learned about critical race theory in grad school along with plenty of other sociological concepts that have since faded away. As long as there is racism, there will be Black people finding ways to understand and dismantle it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a nutshell, these programs exemplify meaningful, targeted investments in marginalized populations and represent a significant course reversal from much of United States history. Julio Ángel Alicea is an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Camden.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. But certainly for most of the history of the West these were not considered crimes against humanity. With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime.

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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. The proportion of students who major in the humanities has fallen from a high of nearly one in five to one in 20. “We Canadian border.

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Zinn Education Project

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

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. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history,” she said. I don’t think this is a new era but a repetition of history.”.

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