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JANUARY 29, 2017

At the same time, K-12 education systems across the country are focusing more than ever on producing “college-ready” students. This disconnect between the K-12 and higher education systems has long been an issue, according to José Luis Santos, vice president of higher education policy and practice at the Education Trust.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Former NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz writes about a related trend in her latest column for Hechinger: Colleges embedding climate-related content into all sorts of classes — sociology, history, English literature, French. “We According to the nonprofit group Second Nature, only about 12 universities are carbon neutral.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Its K-12 and community college students will be able to take unlimited Metro bus and train rides without charge. Sophie Goodman is a senior studying sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, also known as SUNY New Paltz, about 85 miles north of New York City.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Roslyn Mickelson, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina who has researched the effects of desegregation, found that students who experience K-12 education in diverse classrooms are more likely to live in integrated neighborhoods and enroll their kids in integrated schools as adults.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. But the increasing focus on industry needs in K-12 has also drawn criticism. An engineer from Michelin talks to kindergarten students at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering about tire construction during the school’s engineering week.

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JUNE 24, 2018

Another agitated mother worried, “How am I going to tell my 12-year-old?”. In 1932, Willard Waller’s classic work on the sociology of teaching pronounced parents and educators to be “natural enemies”: Parents are concerned for their own children, while educators look to the success of all students. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. The Vermont College System was losing $8 million to $12 million a year. million over the next two years; and Iowa State, $11.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2018

“Affluent parents might see rising income inequality as really making a winner-take-all economy and feel a strong push to give their kids every advantage they can,” said Daniel Schneider, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Only 12 percent of non-poor families did this.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

With newfound motivation and support, and a better understanding of my racial experiences in K-12, I decided to transfer to a more selective, four-year university. Erick Ramirez Manriquez is a sociology Ph.D. Yet, I questioned every step of the process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The study, “ Relationships between an ADHD Diagnosis and Future School Behaviors among Children with Mild Behavioral Problems ,” was published online March 4, 2020 in the academic journal Sociology of Education. Owens’s theory is that the label of having a disability, even a common one like ADHD, creates a negative stigma.

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AUGUST 12, 2018

He laments that his tenure in Chicago will be remembered for this more than for creating community schools, increasing access to Advanced Placement classes in high schools, and raising the high school graduation rate by 12 percentage points. Gates Professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Richard Ingersoll, one of the authors of the report and a Professor of Education and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, said the increase in minority teachers despite the high quit rate means recruitment efforts have been a success. “If Related: How can states better support and keep new teachers?

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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. Some administrators get other extras.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

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JUNE 27, 2019

At UMR, a third of the students are people of color, matching the composition of K-12 students in Minnesota. At UMR, virtually all students take the same core courses in their first two years, a blend of science and humanities that includes sociology, Spanish and writing along with biology and chemistry.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Amy Stuart Wells is the current president of the American Educational Research Association and a professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she directs Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Richard Ingersoll, education and sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, detailed the numbers in “The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education,” a recent report published by the Albert Shanker Institute, a nonprofit organization endowed by the American Federation of Teachers, a union.

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MAY 27, 2019

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. She’s now an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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APRIL 30, 2017

Serena Walker-Jean, who wants to study sociology, also worries about feeling comfortable as a minority. I don’t want to be the only person who has this kind of hair and stuff.”. Related: New supports for first-gen students: Helpful or just ‘a drop in the bucket?’. .

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Her mother drove across Lake Pontchartrain, then Williams’s old neighborhood appeared.

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OCTOBER 20, 2019

Jacobs became principal at the school, which serves grades 7 through 12, last fall and has been a teacher and administrator for more than 20 years in Avoyelles Parish. The plantation where Solomon Northup — whose story was told in the movie “12 Years a Slave” — was enslaved is located in Avoyelles Parish.

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APRIL 28, 2025

That’s according to a groundbreaking analysis from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, published in Sociology of Education, a peer-reviewed journal, and shared exclusively with The Associated Press’ Education Reporting Network. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

12) In fact, a single, brief exposure to good reading material can result in a lifelong love affair with books. While important, these issues make little impact on igniting the minds of K-12 students with quality, relevant, and engaging books and content—the critical component for creating lifelong readers. What can be done?

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We She watched the series and then built an entire curriculum around it (content rated TV-MA means the course is only open to juniors and seniors). We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Inside the grand, art deco-influenced building, students study rhetoric and sociology, Antigone and anthropology. It’s the latest “microcollege” from Bard, which started a college-in-prison initiative in 1999 and a program for student moms in 2016. One of the first to apply to the new program was a library security guard.

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JULY 16, 2018

He’s now studying sociology along with markets, management and the economy , while working two part-time jobs on campus so he can send money home. Wealth disparities aside, Inoa is floored by his freedom to take a pre-med track along with sociology and a dizzying array of courses in subjects to which he’d never been exposed.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. This literally was an uninterrupted campaign of anti-Black terror that was sweeping the South, of which Ida B.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I’ve looked at President-elect Trump’s campaign website , and read the speeches he’s given that mentioned K-12 education. There’s a basic theme: America spends a great deal on K-12 education, but our results are mediocre, making us less competitive with other countries. Read more about higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

requirements for the entire state system in Florida, because sociology apparently is radical Marxist teaching, because anything that focuses on inequalities is now being rendered a crime against the state of Florida. Polls showed participants included 31% K–12 teachers, 20% teacher educators, and 11% K–12 students.

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