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High School Research Sociology 
TeachThought
APRIL 4, 2024
Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. Background research on children’s learning showed that preschoolers have two qualifiers when choosing an informer.
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Passion for Social Studies
JANUARY 30, 2024
Sociology is such a fun class to teach in high school. Similarly, it is important to have a strong Sociology review to ensure all students understand the content. Similarly, it is important to have a strong Sociology review to ensure all students understand the content. Sociology Projects Students love projects!
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A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 8, 2013
It virtually gave every New Milford High School teacher two to three, forty eight minute periods a week, depending on the semester, to engage in growth opportunities of personal interest. History teacher Rebecca Millan started her own blog and is now having her students blog as well in Sociology.
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ED Surge
AUGUST 14, 2024
Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.
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A Principal's Reflections
MAY 4, 2011
As I ponder these questions I can''t help but reflect on some of the learning activities that one of my teachers - Rebecca Millan - has been utilizing in her Sociology class. Through the Internet and the use of their cell phones, students’ researched and called different venues and businesses to budget their wedding. Currently in Ms.
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The Hechinger Report
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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A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.
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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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 24, 2018
Motivated by a fierce desire to protect their children and themselves from difficulty, and armed with a robust sense of entitlement as well as ample economic, cultural and social resources, affluent parents can trigger conflict and interfere with school districts on a scale that is rarely acknowledged. and they sued in Forsyth County, Ga.
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The Hechinger Report
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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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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The Hechinger Report
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.”.
The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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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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The Hechinger Report
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
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
One team of researchers has a surprising answer. Free community college, an increasingly popular idea, is much less effective, actually reducing four-year college education rates while low-income Americans reap the smallest benefits, the researchers found. ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. .
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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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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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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Julio Ángel Alicea is an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Camden. A former public school teacher, his research interests include race, urban education and organizational change. These important California models can pave a path forward with more explicit commitments to racial justice.
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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. that pay college tuition for adults. ?Valissa?White,
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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
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.”
130 The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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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The Hechinger Report
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.
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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. 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
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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The Hechinger Report
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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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
JULY 14, 2022
Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. A recent study makes the link between positive and negative stereotypes clear: Researchers found that when more Asian American students were in a class, teachers’ assessments of their Black students declined.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I Chelsea Kelley explains new legislation to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in October 2019. According to research , she’s right. Credit: Marisol Barajas.
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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. And key to UMR’s rise as a mint for medical talent is its partnership with the Mayo Clinic, which hires a good number of its graduates and provides research opportunities for others. ROCHESTER, Minn.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2021
Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”. Related: Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college.
128 The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2019
He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge.
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