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

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Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024. in political science from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

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Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

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But Rogers High, in an imposing building in the city’s poorest neighborhood, may be a tougher test for whether the idea can work with all students in this economically diverse city of roughly 200,000. Rogers had hit a high of 82 percent in 2016. But students also know she’s serious about making them work harder.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

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In 2004, the late Harvard political science professor Sam Huntington made the argument that recent immigrants, particularly Hispanics, weren’t assimilating well into American society. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

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Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5 Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. It’s improved only slightly since.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?

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In 2016, Rabalais, a well-connected, self-described charter school proponent, had learned that the Gentilly Terrace Elementary School would be closing its doors at the end of the school year — making the campus a blank canvas for a new kind of school. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor.