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Common Core Reading Resource: Smithsonian Tween Tribune

Catlin Tucker

My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Will history repeat? Related: How the last recession affected higher education. I don’t think so.”.

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With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves

The Hechinger Report

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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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.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

The Hechinger Report

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. TRANSFERRING.

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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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College Uncovered, Season 3, Episode 2

The Hechinger Report

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. I’m a historian.

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