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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

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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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

ED Surge

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. However, after taking matters into her own hands, Sheliya was able to find a person on social media that secured housing via Open Homes.

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Meet Yifan (Flora) He, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

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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Short Course: Building Sustainable Cities: Provision, Implementation and Management

Political Science Now

This short course draws from the unique set of theoretical and methodological approaches of political science to contribute to debates on building sustainable cities. Theoretically, we emphasize the importance of political behavior, social connectivity, governance processes, and citizenship for prospects of sustainable development.

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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. #> Territorial Disputes and the Politics of #> Individual Well-Being.” “External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> and Steven V.

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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

Convert a Panel to a Cross-Section (From “Easiest” to “Still Easy (but with Five More Lines of Code)”) The data created above and assigned to an object called rawData is what we’d call a “panel” in the social sciences. 2024, observations are included from 2020. If 2020 is not available, it will take 2021. 100 0.742 2.76

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Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding

Steven V. Miller

Democracy is more likely to emerge as a system of governance in the absence of violent conflict to settle questions of redistribution. There are any number of reasons to be skeptical about what Lipset (1959) argued, certainly with the benefit of hindsight and over 60 years of social science research.

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