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Funding Graduate Research and Applying for Small Grants: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

APSAs Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Professions virtual workshop series features accessible, high-quality professional development opportunities for political science graduate students. In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 175,340 Asian American students (comprising 16.6%

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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

A 2023 survey conducted by EducationWeek researchers reports that 70% of teachers say student misbehavior has increased since 2019, and 68% say their students have lower morale than they did pre-pandemic. Soft Skills in Health Teachers report that behavior issues have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al. Mervosh, Sarah, and Francesca Paris.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. He became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. Scheider used to visit the homes of her students; she no longer does.