CUNY Academic Commons | Azizah Al-Antri | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/azizah14/activity/ Activity feed for Azizah Al-Antri. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 4b7014440342d0aa54c941b73df0797a Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 14 - Education and Policy, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-14-education-and-policy/#comment-831 Sun, 16 May 2021 03:57:03 -0400 The powerpoint was clear and I understood the Buchmann reading more clearly. I liked how you explained the chart that displays research on education and stratification in developing countries and the supply and […]

]]> 8167c47fa216ca04747d8c07e1d6576a Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 13 – Horizontal Stratification in Higher Education, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-13-horizontal-stratification-in-higher-education/#comment-795 Mon, 10 May 2021 02:13:19 -0400 From the powerpoint, the concepts seem mostly clear to me, and it further helped me understand the readings and the meaning behind “horizontal stratification” and “ascription” which I didn’t know what they meant b […]

]]> 1560ca1873e5035cf913c87fdb891892 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 12 - Education and the (Re)production of Inequalities, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-12-education-and-the-reproduction-of-inequalities/#comment-758 Mon, 03 May 2021 04:49:12 -0400 Since the articles were very lengthy and complex, the powerpoint discussed the main points of the study and it’s theories and findings which was very helpful. The discussion of the graphs in the powerpoint h […]

]]> 163325653782f67dcd73e8affbb7815b Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 11 - Race, Class and Education – Inequalities Between and Within Families, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-11-race-class-and-education-inequalities-between-and-within-families/#comment-706 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:34:16 -0400 The powerpoint is very clear and the articles summarized to focus on the main points of research methods and the findings. I was wondering however for Lareau’s article why the research design seemed very complex s […]

]]> 5dc5576c056fde3c792c4f3b44d928f1 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 10 - Disadvantages at the Starting Gate – Inequalities Between and Within Families, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-10-disadvantages-at-the-starting-gate-inequalities-between-and-within-families/#comment-664 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 01:55:20 -0400 Everything in the powerpoint is clear and you actually delved deep into the articles and broke it down in a way to highlight the important points and made it more understandable and clearer.

Heckman’s c […]

]]> 274ec70346b86a59b598e05742af00e1 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 9 – The Coleman Report, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-9-the-coleman-report/#comment-643 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 03:59:49 -0400 An important question that was asked in the powerpoint was, “What matters more for achievement: families or schools?” I believe that both are critical for achievement but an important point was made in one of the […]

]]> 71c5585856efef66221b4735f2ae331a Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 6 - The Forms of Capital, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-6-the-forms-of-capital/#comment-492 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 06:34:48 -0400 The powerpoint was a great way to summarize the main points of Bourdieu’s article on the forms of capital and Coleman’s article on social capital. It was clear and interesting, especially when you discussed Col […]

]]> ba376ad6b046ac0445bdb0d1847f7c78 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 4 – Economic and Educational Mobility – A Global Perspective, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-4-economic-and-educational-mobility-a-global-perspective/#comment-349 Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:02:40 -0500 The powerpoint presentation was clear in explaining intergenerational mobility and the relationship between absolute and relative mobility in the U.S. and different countries. The charts and graphs really provided […]

]]> e1ace5436d4786d6834eb711af1393ef Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 3 - Development and Education - What is the relationship, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-3-development-and-education-what-is-the-relationship/#comment-311 Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:57:11 -0500 In the powerpoint, I thought that the introduction on what education is, and how it is related to development was interesting. It’s unclear on what comes first and what causes the other; whether education a […]

]]> 11b36c2e3b7077d62b810d249d8c0365 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 2 – Poverty and Capabilities, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/week-2-poverty-and-capabilities/#comment-284 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:16:40 -0500 From the powerpoint presentation, everything seemed clear and the readings were summarized well. I also appreciate the maps, charts and graphs that were displayed so that we can look at different variables such as […]

]]> bd1032002b5f6e14594bf12c9788e438 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 1 – Introduction and Basic Concepts, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/new-announcement/#comment-268 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:06:38 -0500 Hi Katelyn,

I felt the same way when I read Sen’s article. He discussed many different ways poverty can be measured, and they were all criticized. Poverty is a concept that can’t be easily measured and it’ […]

]]> a50162caa35cc414ff5783cf8261fca5 Azizah Al-Antri commented on the post, Week 1 – Introduction and Basic Concepts, on the site Education and Social Development https://educsocdev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/new-announcement/#comment-250 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 02:55:20 -0500 In the chapter about concepts of poverty, Amartya Sen discusses the different definitions of poverty and where exactly do we draw the line when measuring poverty. I think this concept is interesting because the […]

]]> 3ec45d104c0bb88255651740c241203a Azizah Al-Antri became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/536621/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:24:19 -0500