The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

They were concerned about losing federal money,” said Marisol Perez Gonzalez, a senior sociology major who along with other students took part in meetings with administrators about these issues, and who herself has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status after being brought by her family from Mexico to Salt Lake City when she was 10.

Sociology 109

Sociology Psychology Government High School 109

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.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major. To Shields, the meaning behind that message was clear: “I care about you.”. It feels normal.”.

Sociology 112

Sociology Advocacy Psychology Cultures 112

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored — low-income, urban, public high school graduates with mediocre test scores. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it.

Tradition 94

Tradition Sociology Civics Critical Thinking 94

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.

Sociology 68

Sociology Psychology History Critical Thinking 68

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

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.

Social Studies 141

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Though male staffers with school-age children can be equally attuned to the details of their kids’ educational lives, men in general are not. Women’s willingness to collaborate is “a residue of how women have been asked to work.”

Education 143

Education Education Policy Sociology Cultures 143

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. And small changes in these assumptions can sometimes generate different results.

Sociology 99

Sociology Psychology Education Policy High School 99

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. Most parents want their kids to go to school. They want them at school learning.

Charter School 89

Charter School Sociology Tutoring Psychology 89