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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Political Science Now

Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University. His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. His book Was ist Populismus?

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Eric Schickler Receives the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award

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Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. Of particular note is his interest in exploring political history and American political development through the lens of the Congress.

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

The Hechinger Report

And it’s sending more low-income students to universities: 27 percent of its spring 2016 graduates who received free lunch enrolled in a four-year school in the fall, the highest proportion of any school in the district. Rogers had hit a high of 82 percent in 2016. She casually refers to students she meets as “girlfriend” and “buddy.”

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

The Hechinger Report

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. 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.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. Political science. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception

The Hechinger Report

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.