Political Science Now

MARCH 21, 2024

Yifan (Flora) He is a PhD candidate at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, with a research focus on land and natural resources governance in the Global South using causal inference methods and geospatial tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the time, the Ministry of Industries and the government of Bangladesh were seeking to reform the country’s shipbreaking industry so that Bangladesh would be in a position to ratify the 2009 “Hong Kong Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling” (HKC) by 2023. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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Political Science Now

JULY 5, 2024

or “less or more government?”) In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. He holds an MA from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Graduate Student (2018-2020). Other psychologists have posited five moral foundations under the banner of “Moral Foundations Theory.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools. Since then, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas have followed suit.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Still, they also deliberately designed the new government not to be all-powerful. Check out this blog post to learn how I teach the principles of the Constitution , like limited government.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 18, 2024

In recent years, we’ve seen government officials openly questioning the value of anthropological studies. 2018) The “adjunctification” of labor in academia has also exacerbated these problems. This issue has manifested in troubling ways, particularly in the realm of public policy and education. Speakman et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4 A score of less than 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. While a total of 119,000 people succeeded in getting two types of manufacturing certificates through 2018, we don’t know how many failed.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Since then, it has successfully formed governments in New Delhi and Punjab in addition to winning some seats in the Indian Parliament’s lower house ( Lok Sabha ). AAP emerged from the India Against Corruption movement in 2013.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

While most other colleges disburse student aid once a semester, cosmetology schools are supposed to do so when students hit certain benchmarks in their progress toward a certificate, and the schools must return the money to the government if the student drops out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. This month it announced a new partnership with Nigeria’s government intended to bring between 30 and 50 Nigerian Ph.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 By 2018, the number of industry-recognized credentials students earned, signaling they attained specific job skills, had grown fivefold. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. It’s been fascinating to hear from university and government leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world who are all excited about this topic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. A 2018 review of all the high-quality class size experiments around the world, including the U.S., Credit: Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report. In math, the review found no benefits at all.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. Government Accounting Office (1993), the National Academy of Sciences (Pellegrino, Jones, & Mitchell, 1999); and the National Academy of Education (Shepard, 1993). They immediately came under fire in reviews by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. In New York City, for example, in 2018 more than 71,000 of the 328,000 public high school students took career and technical education courses, including ones in fashion design, pharmacology and accounting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The public is expecting, ‘You’ve been entrusted with billions of dollars in government research. Most of the $75.3

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

based Virtual Internships was established in 2018 with the goal of removing barriers to internship participation, especially abroad, co-founder Ed Holroyd Pearce said. The program offers fully remote internships that last one to four months, require a commitment of 10, 20 or 30 hours per week, and have start dates throughout the year.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

In 2012, the UK government also launched an initiative to promote “military ethos” in schools to promote loyalty, resilience, courage, and teamwork. In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. He holds an MA from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Graduate Student (2018-2020).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The partnership, established in 2018, would be the first of its kind. When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. They reported median salary increases of between $5,000 and $15,000.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. A 2018 study at the University of Florida (UF) found only 38 percent of UF students who reported food insecurity used the campus food pantry. The Hope Center has studied the issue extensively, and its results have been deemed valid by the U.S. Break down biases to increase access.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But during the past four years, New York parents have actively excluded about one in five students from taking the annual state tests (including 18 percent in the spring 2018 test administration). Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. But after the year was over, Seton Hall noticed that it never received the $25,000 from the federal government and billed Floyd for it directly.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A 2018 study found that more than half of the students who worked at least 15 hours per week had grade averages of C or below. A 2018 study found that more than half of the students who work at least 15 hours per week had grade averages of C or below.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

As Executive Director, Mealy will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategic mission and vision of the association, and overseeing the day-to-day operations of APSA, including governance, finance, communications, the annual meeting, the teaching and learning conference, publications, membership services, diversity, equity, and inclusion (..)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

government terms “persistent poverty,” meaning that it has had poverty rates at or exceeding 20 percent for over 30 years. A generation ago, the biggest employers in eastern Kentucky were coal companies, which received significant incentives, including tax breaks, from local and state governments to operate in the region.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The most recent National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education published in 2018 found that elementary teachers taught science for just 18 minutes a day on average. It’s not just facts and formulas — it’s a way to inspire wonder and curiosity in students as they learn about the world around them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I According to a 2018 study by the accounting firm PwC, only 10 percent of K-12 teachers reported they “feel confident” about including high-level technology in their lesson plans.

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