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Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades

The Hechinger Report

The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. Some college instructors seem to be aware of their human frailty.

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

His particular focus and subsequent publication about the Gimi concerned their medical beliefs and practices, but not until 2018 did Nansi and Len publish their beautifully illustrated Among the Gimi: Fieldwork as Personal Experience. Their first child, Professor Benjamin Glick, was born during their research in the highlands.

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Celebrating a Decade of Collaboration: APSA and Zayed University Faculty

Political Science Now

The training collaboration between the department and APSA coincided with the establishment of the Social Sciences Lab at the college and thus, both workshops aimed at supporting the mission of the lab to disseminate cutting-edge skills among the faculty.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

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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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 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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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences.