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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

Journalist Natalie Wexler, author of the 2019 book The Knowledge Gap, said the study ought to spark a re-evaluation of the usual approach to reading comprehension in schools, which frequently focuses on skills, such as asking students to find the main idea and make inferences. “The Content is hard.

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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. #> Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Social Science Quarterly* 100(1): #> 272–88. #> > #> Gibler, Douglas M.,

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. His most recent books are Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Political Order and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2015).