ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The University of North Carolina Press “Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools” by Michelle Purdy, Ph.D. 2018) Purdy’s “Transforming the Elite” shines a light on a lesser-discussed part of America’s history of segregation — private schools. Jones-Rogers, Ph.D.

History 105

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 105

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.

High School 144

High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 144

The Hechinger Report

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.

K-12 119

K-12 Junior High Elementary School Sociology 119

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

Teaching 111

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

Social Justice 127

Social Justice Advocacy High School Human Rights 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

I wish I’d had somebody keeping it really real about this transition,” says Victoria Shantrell Asbury, a sociology graduate student at Harvard who moderated the November forum and was a low-income first gen undergraduate at Stanford University. You will send your kids to private school. You won’t be able to quit.”.

Economics 106

Economics Sociology Cultures Anthropology 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111