Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields. These three courses are complementary and can also be taken separately.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Propelled in part by the 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), UNM-Taos initiated a program overhaul in 2015 with the goal of aligning educational programs to in-demand career pathways. As Victoria Gonzalez of UNM-Taos poignantly notes: “The ego must die. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2023 , tracked the college applications of 70,000 students at 220 public high schools over five application cycles, from 2014-15 to 2019-20. That study looked at only 8,000 students at one unidentified school district in the mid-Atlantic region.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion. Triton said the data on its students’ earnings was collected in 2014.). But regulation advocates say that debt is not the only way to measure what students give up for a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. percent fewer funds per child than the 25 percent wealthiest districts during the 2014-15 school year. That has changed.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state. As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. However, most platform operators and the state did not aim to scam.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? #> > #> ———. > #> ———.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014. They tend to have higher graduation rates, and their alumni networks provide powerful economic and political connections. At UMBC, about 18 percent of freshmen in 2019 were Black, up from 12 percent in 2014.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders. Leveraging Existing Resources across the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

After the white flight transpired, an extended retreat from cities after the Second World War, migration back to urban areas over the last decade has been stimulating economic growth and technological innovation. We can create a new economic development model in which HBCUs sit in the center of the plan,” said Gallot.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. See a larger version of the graphic Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9 in 1985 and dropped to a low of 15.3

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Across all four-year institutions, the graduation rate for first-time students seeking bachelor’s degrees was 60 percent in 2014, which represents a slight increase since 2000, when 57.5 The government calculates the graduation rate by counting the number of students who entered college and completed their degrees within six years.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. Starting in 2014, when her first grandchild was born, she began caring for him and, through the years, cared for all four of her grandchildren.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. think tank. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, speaks at a panel discussion there. Yuna Ishikawa was in her senior year of high school in 2014 when she made the drive with her mother from Oberlin, Ohio, to visit Wellesley College in Massachusetts. in economics; I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. But some parents fear that acknowledging their housing struggles could prompt the government to take their kids away.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

According to the 2014 report, “The 1,852 facilities housed a total of 50,821 justice-involved youth who were younger than 21.”. According to the 2014 report, “The 1,852 facilities housed a total of 50,821 justice-involved youth who were younger than 21.”. This is the lowest number of resi­dential placements since 1975.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education. Related: Former chancellors of research universities warn their future is in peril.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. grade-point average, and give a commencement speech in May.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Jack Freer: Yeah, not everyone is born with the same economic opportunities. Despite the recent uptick, Jenkins points out that community college enrollment in Massachusetts is actually down nearly 40 percent since 2014. They report them to the federal government. and getting some free snacks. Jon: I like free.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Albuquerque Public Schools is a member of Mission: Graduate, an initiative of the United Way of Central New Mexico that brings together schools, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and community members to collectively work toward common education goals. And a core element of its initiative is raising awareness about the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

Without a degree, those who leave college often can’t get decent-paying jobs to make a dent in their loans, hurting their economic futures and that of the state as a whole. . But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable. million in need-based aid.

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