The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The project aims to help teachers educate students about the structures of economic inequality and its human dimensions and foster greater understanding and empathy. Hansen is a professor of sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University; Nazli Kibria , is a professor of sociology at Boston University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

Social Justice 127

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The assumptions here are derived from research findings that previous scholars have calculated on smaller groups of people around the country and then applied to this larger national database of students who graduated high school in 2007. .” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Criminal justice. Philosophy.

Education 131

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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.

Economics 144

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. She said her high school internship was relevant to her Cornell major in labor relations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. And it uses different reading and math tests than this one that begins tracking high school students in 1980. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. On a late April afternoon in the residence building, Madison Ousley, a junior who finished high school in Apple Valley, Minn., Mikhail Zinshteyn for The Hechinger Report. ROCHESTER, Minn.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Jeffrey Jackson, a professor in the sociology department at Ole Miss, is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context, which spearheaded the creation of the plaques. Weekly Update.

History 89

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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. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. Travel or Hobbies – Find a way to highlight your outside hobbies to humanize yourself. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

Geography 136

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

What should teenagers do after high school? That’s what EdSurge found out by talking at length with nine diverse high school students from around the U.S. Budding businessman Vernell Cheneau III had decided against going to college by the time he graduated from high school in spring 2021.

Sociology 108

Sociology High School Advocacy Humanities 108

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A California high school student practices welding during a class on advanced agricultural mechanics. We tell our children they must get high SAT scores, attend selective colleges, get bachelor’s degrees and get high paying jobs to have a successful life. Youth don’t need high SAT scores to attain these goals.

Sociology 98

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Related: Debt without degree — The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

At the same time, to address mental health concerns, colleges are creating more courses in fields like “the environmental humanities,” Hamilton and Taylor Swift studies and offering more and more wellness days. She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift.

Humanities 89

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Generally, there is a massive shortage of talent, particularly in certain skilled talent areas,” said Jamie Kohn, senior research director for the human resources practice of the Gartner consulting firm, who said competition for college graduates is fierce.

Economics 143

Economics Sociology High School Humanities 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

She’d dropped out of high school her junior year. Cohen High School, more than half the city’s black adults didn’t have even a high school diploma, let alone a university credential. But even that goal felt unreachable after Metz became pregnant in 1985, her junior year of high school.

Education 112

Education Psychology High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The humanities add some color into that.”. It’s a fast-spreading skepticism that has resulted in significant drops in the number of students majoring in the humanities on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian The proportion of students who major in the humanities has fallen from a high of nearly one in five to one in 20.

Humanities 100

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

I am my family’s last best hope for financial security,” said Santos, who designed his own clothing line in high school and also started a nonprofit matching minority students in the Boston area with mentors. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There’s a dialogue, and a starting point now,” Rogers said. Like a fantasy’.

Sociology 107

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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. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. Muhammad: Yeah. So I’m hoping that Ida B. Wells , sometimes known as Ida B.

Primary Sources 98

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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 believed in an education system that would help students embody their full human potential. I thought teaching and our school systems were sustainable.

Education 128

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

Remember, this is the same state in which the chairman of the Texas State Board of Education has said he believes the earth to be 6,000 years old and that human beings walked with dinosaurs. I learned about critical race theory in grad school along with plenty of other sociological concepts that have since faded away.

Sociology 145

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

As I said at my hearing, I fully embrace equality and believe in the innate value of every single human being,” she said. When Senator Murray asked, “Have you or anyone in your family ever invested in, owned, served as a high-level executive or board member for, or in any other way been financially involved with a for-profit college?

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Muhammad: Yeah.

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