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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

A recent working paper by economists Kirsten Slungaard Mumma and Marcus Winters compared students who scored just below the threshold for third grade retention on the Mississippi ELA test in 2014-15 with those who scored just a bit above that threshold, tracing the students’ performance for several years. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. Ontologically, practice tracing is built on a relational understanding of the social world, which places the analytic focus squarely on process.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

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.