The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Until now, the work has been done by students of sociology and psychology and anthropology. And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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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 during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. A disproportionate number of humanities and science programs are being dropped. We’re just like lost causes if we’re from small towns.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. B t jobs, Graeber argues, have bloomed in professions like finance (financial services); law (corporate law); administration (academic and health administration); and marketing, public relations, and human resources.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

The unknown impacts of human ingenuity, climate change and demographic shifts in an increasingly global world, among myriad other forces, ensures that the future will be unpredictable. Liberal arts students learn about the breadth of the world and the ideas that have been central to our understanding of humanity and the world around us.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. Imagine engineering students retrofitting campus buildings to make them more energy efficient.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every world view distinguishes (a) part of the self from another part, thus establishing, as it were, a dialogue within the self; (b) a human nature from that which is nonhuman; (c) classes and categories of the human, i.e., social persons (e.g., Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Paul Attewell, a sociology and education professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the second author. “These students are establishing a work history and it signals to employers that you show up on time, take direction and have the capacity for work.” Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. The DSM has gone through several different versions in its history. and Horwitz, A.V. and Abi-Rached, JM.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Left vulnerable when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Missouri Western is now cutting nearly a third of its faculty and at least 98 majors, minors and concentrations , including in English, history, chemistry, biology, philosophy, sociology, political science, computer technology, music and art.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. They picked classes and planned a schedule.

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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. She just published a study, “ The Global Increase in the Socioeconomic Achievement Gap, 1964 to 2015 ,” in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2019. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. What does this look like?

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

A landscape of human skull shapes These black-and-white maps are aesthetically attractive as well as invitingly strange. ” To be more precise: these maps plot a landscape of human skull shapes. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. Credit : Z.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. World Flags – You may also love displaying flags from around the world if you teach World History or Current World Issues.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. I could go on, but you get the picture. What does this look like?

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

About 46% of humans, well over three billion people, are native speakers of an Indo-European language. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is a language that gave rise to many others. But where did PIE first arise, and who spoke it: pastoralists from the Pontic steppe straddling eastern Europe and west Asia or agrarians from Anatolia in Turkey?

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Drawing from biological and social sciences, as well as clinical sciences, medical anthropologists have contributed significantly to the understanding and improvement of human health and health services worldwide. disease represents an aspect of the environment that is both influenced by human behavior and requires biocultural adaptations 3.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. Law, science and technological advancements lead to highly decentralized human endeavours. lakh villages and nearly 99.6 per cent of rural population.

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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.

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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.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

These processes enabled political trajectories that led to higher levels of human development and more robust postcolonial democratization in contexts previously characterized by forced settlement than those that experienced colonial occupation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

Related: Rewrite the history textbooks, or the white supremacist violence will continue. 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.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Jesse Hagopian: The Condemnation of Blackness is a history of the construction of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the United States, and it reveals the influence of this pernicious myth rooted in statistics on our society and our sense of self.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music.

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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.

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