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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

This might play out differently dependent on the level of experience and expertise of each individual teacher: More novice teachers may lack awareness because they literally don’t see things in their classrooms that more expert teachers do (Wolff et al, 2016) and/or because they lack the mental models to analyse and interpret what is happening.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism?

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Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

Political Science Now

He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. Tasha Fairfield is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. Her methodological research examines the Bayesian logic of inference in qualitative social science.

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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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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. European Union, OECD states), economic groupings (e.g. 0.662 NA #> 3 Afghanistan AF AFG 2016 97.7 Here’s a table of contents.

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OPINION: The case for a Bachelor of Arts — what Betsy DeVos doesn’t understand about this “Noble Pursuit”

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, the average student came out of college with an average of $37, 172 in debt. Rather than take public support for granted, researchers began to document what theatre, dance, film, music, literature and visual arts contribute to society and how artists produce reward, economically and socially.