Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Initially, some people at my school expressed concern about whether an AP- level course was the most appropriate choice for a blended learning pilot because of the sheer amount of content to be covered in a year.

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MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Researchers there examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics on nearly 20,000 college alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2016. The education black students receive in elementary, middle and high schools may affect their ability to persist in college, says Natasha Warikoo, an expert on race and higher education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2024

David Monaghan, an associate professor of sociology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, has been digging into that question in a series of recent research studies. Since the program was open to all high schools in the city, doing that communication was more difficult than in the case of the other program they studied.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In most communities, opportunities for play and playful learning tend to recede in middle school, replaced by direct instruction, competitive sports and tightly structured academic time. Educators and researchers say students pay the price. The researchers found that activity levels plunged as children reached adolescence.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I completed thesis research in social behavior of introduced rhesus macaques in central Florida. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

During my sophomore year of high school, I experienced something completely unprecedented and, until that year, I hadn’t realized how vital it was to my self-esteem, self-identification and self-growth. I finally had a teacher who looked like me. I finally would see the face of another black woman every day.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re more focused on money,” said Adon, 17, a senior at a public high school here. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of enrollment in universities and colleges and men just over 40 percent, the research center reports. Lynnel Reed, head guidance counselor, University Park Campus School.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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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. College took a back seat the moment Izzy B. called the suicide hotline. percentage points.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones.

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JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. These recruitment efforts should begin in high school, and potential candidates and police education should include mentoring by community-assigned police officers. One of us is a retired NYPD detective. With 36,000 police officers serving over 8.5

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

This policy change creates a real test for more affluent white parents who say they live in New York City because of the diversity and then send their children to segregated schools.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: When students research the inequality in their own schools. Cascading Lives’ digital toolkit provides teachers with a comprehensive list of teaching materials to bring these conversations about economic inequality and mobility into the high school classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s crunch time for thousands of high school seniors seeking spots at selective U.S. So, too, is a new book by Tufts University sociology professor Natasha Warikoo , “Is Affirmative Action Fair? colleges, an annual ritual that appears to get more competitive every year, inviting hysteria, hair pulling and enormous anxiety.

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DECEMBER 25, 2020

Research also shows that some might change their majors if they did. But when asked why they attended particular colleges, only about half said it was because graduates of those schools got good jobs. He is also trying to encourage greater use of this information in high schools. It has moved a lot.”.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

High School Graduation. One in six children who can’t read on grade level by third grade fails to graduate from high school on time— four times the rate for children with proficient third-grade reading skills. (24). archives.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/research-activities/oct09/1009RA18.html. Swan et al.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Even before the coronavirus hit, schools were able to fill only about 54 percent of some 250,000 teacher vacancies each day, according to a survey of more than 2,000 educators released early in 2020 by the EdWeek Research Center. This sends the message that it’s OK to stop at high school, and I’m troubled by that.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. On the first Wednesday of December, the stage risers were out and the backlights were on as the women’s choir rehearsed in the Pearl High School Performing Arts Center. Photo: Sarah Warnock/The Clarion Ledger.

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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. that pay college tuition for adults. ?Valissa?White,

Economics 144

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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.

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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

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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Their recovery and survival, their health, education and well-being, is the latest test of our commitment to equity and justice.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. The problem affects high school reform as well. And that’s not even the full story.

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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.”

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MAY 27, 2019

But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. 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. That’s big. They looked at U.S.

Sociology 110

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

I’m talking about black female instructors who are scientists and researchers. Austin Lewis, 21, said he’s had more black instructors in his last two semesters at Georgia State than he had in all his previous school years combined. “It It means I have a level of comfort here,” said Lewis, a junior sociology major.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

When 18-year-old Ernesto Rubio graduated from high school in June, he knew what he wanted to do next: take a summer class in the basics of becoming an emergency medical technician, the first step toward his dream job as a paramedic. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The challenge? Getting to the class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I Ayana Smith, high school senior applying to Tulane University. I’m not surprised that they don’t want to talk about it.”. It kind of destroys the legitimacy of admissions. Progress has been slow.

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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. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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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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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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