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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

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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COLUMN: As elite college applications soar, legacy admissions still give wealthy and connected students an edge

The Hechinger Report

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I “Colleges are kind of in a bind about this,” Richard Kahlenberg, author of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences for College Admissions, and a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, told me. Progress has been slow.

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Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. At EUI, he offers seminars on international relations theory, international institutions, qualitative methods, and philosophies of social science.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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What’s it like to teach psychology?

Jonathan Firth

I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. It has a particular focus on the school system here in Scotland, but most of the points are relevant to other settings too.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. She felt more comfortable at the local university, a diverse school with a sizable black population, but she found UNO’s larger classes overwhelming.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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