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Kolb weighs in on death of a supermarket
Sociology Professor and Chair Ken Kolb contributes to a South Carolina Public Radio story about why a Spartanburg supermarket had to close its doors just a little over a year after opening.
Continue ReadingThere’s no merit in merit pay plans for rewarding, retaining SC teachers
Paul Thomas writes a commentary about why merit pay for teachers might be harmful and explains what's really needed in South Carolina schools.
Continue ReadingOur food and farming book picks for summer 2022
The editors and reporters at Civil Eats recommend 24 new food and farming books to help us stay informed and inspired during summer's repose. Among them is a book by Furman University's Ken Kolb, chair...
Continue ReadingInterview with Dr. Kenneth Kolb, sociology professor and author of ‘Retail Inequality’
[caption id="attachment_52348" align="alignright" width="200"] Kolb's book was released in December 2021.[/caption] Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Furman University, goes on record about the country's "exclusionary" food economy in an...
Continue ReadingFurman professor’s book debates ‘food desert’ concept in Greenville and beyond
[caption id="attachment_52348" align="alignright" width="200"] Kolb's book is published by University of California Press.[/caption] In his new book, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate," Ken Kolb seeks to upend long-held beliefs about the availability of...
Continue ReadingWhy SC is wrong to ‘jump on the bandwagon’ of ‘science of reading’ movement
Paul L. Thomas, a Furman University education professor who taught nearly two decades in the South Carolina public school system, writes an opinion piece in The Greenville News about the folly of the state's latest...
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