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    Galileo, a data platform for viewing news on social networks

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    This article aims to introduce Galileo, a platform for extracting and organizing news media data on social networks. Galileo integrates publications made on the main social networks used in the information ecosystem, namely Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Currently, the system includes 97 media outlets from nine countries: Brazil, Chile, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. Galileo uses a Twitter API and the service CrowdTangle to download Facebook and Instagram posts. This data is stored in a local database and can be accessed through a user-friendly interface, which allows for the analysis of different characteristics of the posts, such as their text, source popularity, and temporal dimension. Galileo is a tool for researchers interested in understanding news cycles and analyzing news content on social networks.

    Unmet goals of tracking: within-track heterogeneity of students' expectations for

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    Educational systems are often characterized by some form(s) of ability grouping, like tracking. Although substantial variation in the implementation of these practices exists, it is always the aim to improve teaching efficiency by creating homogeneous groups of students in terms of capabilities and performances as well as expected pathways. If students’ expected pathways (university, graduate school, or working) are in line with the goals of tracking, one might presume that these expectations are rather homogeneous within tracks and heterogeneous between tracks. In Flanders (the northern region of Belgium), the educational system consists of four tracks. Many students start out in the most prestigious, academic track. If they fail to gain the necessary credentials, they move to the less esteemed technical and vocational tracks. Therefore, the educational system has been called a 'cascade system'. We presume that this cascade system creates homogeneous expectations in the academic track, though heterogeneous expectations in the technical and vocational tracks. We use data from the International Study of City Youth (ISCY), gathered during the 2013-2014 school year from 2354 pupils of the tenth grade across 30 secondary schools in the city of Ghent, Flanders. Preliminary results suggest that the technical and vocational tracks show more heterogeneity in student’s expectations than the academic track. If tracking does not fulfill the desired goals in some tracks, tracking practices should be questioned as tracking occurs along social and ethnic lines, causing social inequality

    Suffolk University Academic Catalog, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School, 2021-2022

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    This catalog contains information for both the undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School.https://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1183/thumbnail.jp

    Suffolk University Academic Catalog and Student Handbook, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School, 2020-2021

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    This catalog contains information for both the undergraduate and graduate programs. The student handbook is included here as a separate pdf document. Please contact the Archives if you need assistance navigating this catalog or finding information on policies, degree requirements, or course descriptions.https://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1182/thumbnail.jp

    Suffolk University Academic Catalog, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School, 2022-2023

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    This catalog contains information for both the undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School.https://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1184/thumbnail.jp

    Esa 12th Conference: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination: Abstract Book

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    Esa 12th Conference: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination: Abstract Boo
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