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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

“Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.” Now these kinds of disciplines are in for even greater scrutiny.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school.

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. His research focuses on mathematical methods, especially bargaining theory, computational social science, machine learning, and mixed methods. This is no easy task.