Sociology

Conference examines residential schools' legacy

8 Feb 2012

Seema Ahluwalia, chair of Kwantlen’s department of sociology, had the idea for the conference as a way of teaching her students about the impact that residential schools had on the Aboriginal peoples.

PHOTO GALLERY: Columbia woman donates to construction of health care center in Kenya

8 Feb 2012

COLUMBIA — Sharon Kinden of Columbia kept her promise to donate an inheritance from an uncle to Pathways Africa, a nonprofit organization started by Billy Jivetti, an MU doctoral student in rural sociology. He started the organization to bring health care to his rural village in Kenya. Now, with Kinden's help, the Fellbaum Community Health Centre Emmaus is under construction.  More funds are ...

Reasonable doubt on teacher evaluation

8 Feb 2012

My guest is Aaron Pallas , professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the Sociological Eye on Education blog—where this post first appeared—for The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media . Read full article >>