A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Research should be used to inform as well as influence the actions we take to implement sustainable change at scale. The effect of learning spaces on various behaviors—territoriality, crowding, situational and personal space—has been the focus of some sociological and environment behavioral research.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

How are areas of life informally sexually segregated? About the Authors Shelene Gomes (she/her), PhD teaches Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at the University of the West Indies, St. How would they need to behave to participate fully in local American or Trinbagonian social life?

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Understanding what makes a story “newsworthy” is one area social scientists can quickly learn and apply to inform their foray into journalism.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, they also point out that recent studies have shown mixed results, as people do sometimes update their beliefs when presented with alternative information. Jack Wippell is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

This information will be turned into a research project at the end of the period. Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts. The students looked at various websites that deal with modern day injustices and evaluated the resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

That’s a good start, but to be transformative, nationally, content should be representative and include African American studies; Asian American studies; Latinx studies; Native American Studies; women, gender and sexuality studies; and sociology and other social sciences across the K-12 curriculum.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

An analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, for example, found that young adults who found jobs through informal networks had higher wages relative to those who used more formal job searching and application techniques. But education just isn’t there yet.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 18, 2024

This spin-off from the burgeoning Sociological Detectives Universe™ is a vehicle by which you can simply and not-a-little-secretly introduce a soupcon of Study Skills into what we’re contractually obliged to call “The Student eXperience” (sic).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

All districts and states do; the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act requires states and school districts to publish report cards that include information on student performance, accountability ratings, per-pupil expenditures, and other information that parents and school officials deem relevant. Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways. Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

To decide who gets it, they should not rely on information from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. That number is based on tax information from two years ago (unless the student appeals, in which case the data are from last year’s taxes), and it does not consider debt, which has been rising during the pandemic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They Were Her Property” offers a candid revision of American history around slavery, violence and gender roles that can inform any audience of unfiltered truths about white women’s contributions to chattel slavery. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. Co-author Byrd has conducted an informal survey with her colleagues who have served New York City communities as police officers, detectives, sergeants and lieutenants. One of us is a retired NYPD detective. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. I found them to be uplifting and informative, especially in this uncertain time. It is not one size fits all’.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But students can be reluctant to use these sanctioned channels, or to show up in person for office hours, says Megan McNamara, a continuing lecturer in sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. And she advises professors to resist the temptation to get involved with these informal channels at all.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s a principal reason more and more information about job opportunities and salaries is being made available to students and their families, most recently by the federal government, which this month expanded a feature of its College Scorecard website showing the earnings payoffs of 37,459 majors at 4,434 colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. That was a hard pill to swallow.”. Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Colleges and universities have good reason to be worried about uncommunicative students, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of sociology and medicine at Temple University who studies college students’ basic needs. Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Some states report information for all students, for instance, while others report information only for incoming recent high school graduates. We were able to get some amount of information about remediation rates in 44 states. Mary Fulton, a senior project manager and policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States.

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2015

candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Making education research more accessible helps both teachers and ed tech developers make informed decisions based on the scientific evidence of how people learn. Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise and Sandra is a Ph.D.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. These testimonies are informative descriptions of people’s experiences expressed in their natural voices. Some had me laughing out loud at the sheer absurdity of the individual’s predicament.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Some students are even afraid to apply for scholarships, not wanting to risk entering their personal information in databases they fear may fall into the hands of the federal government. “I Harvard has now hired its first fellow for undocumented students, to help them find information about everything from academics to immigration law.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Most claimed they did not have this information available, including Yale University, Harvard University, Duke University, Stanford University, Hamilton College, Amherst College and Cornell University, among others. Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Adults who can read well enough to understand health and medical information report not only improved health outcomes, but also greater levels of happiness. Hernandez Professor, Department of Sociology Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Senior Advisor, Foundation for Child Development. 20, 21, 22).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. Nick was not a student in any of my classes, but I consider him an honorary student after informally supporting him through the process of becoming a teacher. Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. The California Community College Chancellor’s Office does not track this information.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2018

Students studying history or sociology or chemistry learn some specific information about a subject but, in a broader sense, those subjects are merely conduits through which students learn even more important non-subject-specific skills like writing, problem-solving, analytic thinking, oral communication, creative expression and more.

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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. The study is still a draft paper, meaning that it could still be revised before it is published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Previous research has relied on student academic records.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I don’t think it happens on purpose,” said Hayes, who graduated in May and now works in information technology. Most of them don’t do it intentionally,” said one of the researchers, Joe Swingle, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College. “It Related: Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We were already fighting twice as hard to get where everybody else was,” said Yessica Flores, a 21-year-old psychology and sociology major at Virginia Commonwealth University. “We We have to fight three times as hard now.”. College enrollments have fallen. Yet only 13 percent of city residents have bachelor’s degrees or higher.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The earliest of these village descriptions, Redfield's Tepoztlan (1930), emerged out of a concern with the 'human ecology' of communities, which marked the school of urban sociology developed at the University of Chicago under the auspices of Redfield's father-in-law, Robert E.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

per day, for a three-meal-a-day dining contract that covers the eight months or so of a typical academic year, according to information the institutions provide to college guide Peterson’s. The average college and university charges about $4,500, or $18.75 Sometimes I look at the meal I’m eating and I’m, like, I have two eggs and toast.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And thus our course, The Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) , was born.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Of course, data should inform decisions. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. Related: Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them.

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