Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise and Sandra is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. In a recent Digital Promise study , a majority of ed tech product developers told us their products are “research-based.” What is the best way to use research to create an effective product?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rural-serving institutions are defined by the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, which Koricich directs, as those that share such characteristics as being located in counties classified as rural and a certain distance from metropolitan areas. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 4, 2011

As I ponder these questions I can''t help but reflect on some of the learning activities that one of my teachers - Rebecca Millan - has been utilizing in her Sociology class. Through the Internet and the use of their cell phones, students’ researched and called different venues and businesses to budget their wedding. Currently in Ms.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage. In Mrs. Paulus’s Senior English Survey class, students worked in the computer lab to conduct research on a travel destination of choice in the U.S.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. “ Solidarity, in this period, became both a subject of sociological study and a tool for promoting a less coercive form of colonial governance.”

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Digital Promise

JULY 24, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise and Sandra is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Stanford University. Teachers and ed tech developers across the country tell us they are unable to access the research they need to help students learn. Making Research Freely Available.

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Anthropology for Beginners

MAY 17, 2021

It was an approach to the study of cities, social change, and urban life, these theories were introduced into sociology by the Chicago School to explain the competition between social groups for scarce resources such as land. The competition between groups was assumed to increase efficiency and promote a greater division of labor.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

OCTOBER 13, 2020

An accomplished scholar, award-winning teacher, and public sociologist, she has become well known for delivering conversational yet compelling translations of sociological theory and research.

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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. Ethnographers are experts in gaining and maintaining the trust of the communities they research.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2020

Graduate students have had their research interrupted. As a biologist, of course, I understand the importance of acting appropriately in this moment,” said Gildea, whose research into neurodegenerative disease, and potential ways to slow it, has been under way for two years. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. They typically last between 3 and 4 days.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. As public debates grow more heated, this research suggests that the nature of these debates—rather than simply their mere existence—may be the factors fueling division.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Karen Sternheimer teaches in the sociology department at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses primarily on moral panics, youth, and popular culture, and she is editor of the Everyday Sociology Reader (W. Norton, 2020).

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 1, 2025

The next Collection in a series that includes Learning Mats, Revision Resources, Simulations and the ever-popular Introductory Sociology, brings together all the Flipbook posts dotted around the Blog I could find and puts them into one handy cut-out-and-keep post. Don’t thank me.

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ShortCutsTV

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime – is something teachers can exploit to demonstrate how sociological knowledge and research can be used to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make about the social world. (..)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

While there dont appear to be any studies specifically on the effect of math education for people in prison, a pile of research shows that prison education programs lower recidivism rates among participants and increase their chances of employment after theyre released. Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons.

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ShortCutsTV

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I always found teaching “the experimental method” in sociology a little dull because there were relatively few examples I could use to illustrate the genre. And most of what were available seemed to be created by psychopaths psychologists.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. See the end of this post for links to the podcast.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 4, 2025

As a political sociologist, he draws on theories and methodologies from political science, sociology, and Indigenous studies to improve how we understand Indigenous social movements under contemporary settler-colonialism and imperialism. Read about the funded projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

Researchers there examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics on nearly 20,000 college alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2016. Natasha Warikoo, sociology professor, Tufts University. “On based think tank. The median time for Latinx students was four years, eight months and for Asians it was four years.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But following that, I decided to take three years and immerse myself in the study of social capital research for my doctoral dissertation. Having conducted much more research, including my own mixed-method study, I’m more convinced than ever: Schools need to focus more on social capital development. Researcher Tara J.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This special issue aims to draw together insights for deploying these findings in research and teaching with particular attention to reducing possibilities of harm.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Eady and Rasmussens research focuses on two aspects of toxicity: its frequency and its perceived severity.

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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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ShortCutsTV

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Steve Bassett’s Channel consists of around 250 reasonably short (10 – 15 minutes mostly) “video lectures”, the last was made around 6 years ago. The earliest content here was made around 11 years ago so if you use the films you need to be aware of possible curriculum changes (in terms of topics and content […]

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

I completed thesis research in social behavior of introduced rhesus macaques in central Florida. 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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Nyla Pollard is a member of the women’s basketball team at The College of William & Mary , where she is double-majoring in sociology and elementary education. Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These six books, with varying perspectives, retell significant well-researched stories about eras of Black history — clearing up some myths, providing context, and offering resources for teaching, learning and understanding the wholeness of Black history.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Educators and researchers say students pay the price. The researchers found that activity levels plunged as children reached adolescence. Adolescents often respond warmly when adults play along with them, and the adult presence often creates a safe space for those who are more shy or less athletic, say researchers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2024

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. There hasn’t been enough research on free college programs in terms of how they are implemented and communicated,” he adds. But is that what actually happens?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. The report, “ Wicked Opportunities ,” also calls for more investment into research and development. Now, some early data suggests that AI could indeed widen disparities. From its perspective, the worst outcome would be to leave districts to fend for themselves when it comes to AI.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Research in teaching anthropology suggests that students learn and understand the subject better by being involved (Copeland and Dengah, 2016) and applying the knowledge both in theoretical and in real-world situations. A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. References Bastide, H. 56-67. . &

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. Prerequisite college coursework should include classes like Urban Sociology and Race and Ethnic Relations. One of us is a retired NYPD detective. Like much of the country, our city has seen many protests against police brutality.

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