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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. Reading comprehension scores for middle schoolers had been declining for a decade since 2013. The only bright spot was progress by higher-achieving children in math. Its almost criminal.

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Learn more about: Examining Women’s Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles

Political Science Now

Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

In 2013, the departments of Education and Veterans Affairs jointly challenged schools to adopt best practices to support the educational success of veterans. Intervening to ensure students have adequate food and housing isn’t just compassionate – it is critical to protecting the financial interests of the government overall.

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Tackling the Impossibility—and Necessity—of Counting the World’s Languages

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The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access. Perhaps the best-known example is the Linguistic Survey of India , which involved a colossal network of government officials around the country.

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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

Anthropology.net

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability. We found that governance mattered," noted archaeologist Helena Hamerow. link] Bowles, S., & Choi, J.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

When kids go to school right now there are more adults in the building of all types than there were in 2013 and more than when I was a kid,” said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, where she has been tracking the divergence between students and staff at the nation’s public schools.

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Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism

Political Science Now

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Jurezs Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan , MIT , Horacio Larreguy , ITAM and Stuart Russell , World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters.