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When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2020

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. Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. “On One more year of college is one less year working. That’s lost income.”.

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APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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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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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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JUNE 24, 2018

. — to understand how parents decide where to live and send their children to school. After the study had begun, Kingsley administrators began the process of redrawing attendance boundaries for the district’s high schools to balance attendance numbers. Weininger is an associate professor of sociology at SUNY College.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I want these kids to have all these soft skills as they get ready to go to high school and to college,” Lane said. Rebecca London, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has studied what happens when educators add break or recess time for middle school students.

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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.”. Overall, yes, certifications are good.

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JUNE 26, 2023

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. for civilians over the age of 25 with only a high school diploma was 3.9

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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. Stopping education after high school not only limits men’s options; it threatens to further widen socioeconomic and political divides, Brooms said.

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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. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. After nearly six years, I am pleased to say that I’ve accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas at Arlington in environment and sustainability, housed in the Department Sociology and Anthropology.

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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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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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MAY 27, 2022

Robin Golden drifted through high school without making much of an effort. On Saturday, Golden, 59, graduated from Morgan State with a bachelor’s degree in applied liberal studies with a concentration in sociology – 41 years after she first enrolled there as a freshman. She earned a 3.8

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MARCH 29, 2022

Relatively few high school graduates have the education — or the inclination — for the years of college math and physics that engineering requires. And among those who take on those challenges, simply making that single decision does not mean they will wind up in a high-paying STEM career. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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. Educating our students about economic inequality will help us take a step in that direction.

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JULY 31, 2020

Ithzel Rubio, a high school student, says that if it weren’t for her summer mentor, “I wouldn’t have anyone else to turn to right now.” Up to a third of high school graduates who plan to pursue higher education never do, the U.S. Credit: Ithzel Rubio. Department of Education says.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Aaron Pallas is Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Reinstating testing now, as the pandemic continues, is tantamount to saying, “Don’t think about elephants!” The elephant of testing will still be in the room.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Each parent, but especially white parents, should seek to develop a broader, anti-racist understanding of what makes a good school for a child, a community and our deeply divided nation.

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s hard not to conclude this without a joke about where I would rank the new USN&WR rankings among all school rating and ranking schemes. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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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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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.

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MAY 31, 2020

My mother, who had only an elementary-level education, raised us on her own and didn’t have any real desire for us to go further in school, to earn any form of higher-education credential. While I was in high school, when she’d leave for work, I would tell her that I was running late for class — but I’d never actually go.

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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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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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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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APRIL 25, 2023

“In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. 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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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. It should all be a level playing field.”

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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. STARS was started when recruiters from a few elite universities finally started to visit rural high schools. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Given how much pressure we collectively put on schools to improve society , setting aside specific funds for programs to support the most systematically disadvantaged students constitutes an educational imperative. Julio Ángel Alicea is an assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-Camden.

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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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