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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to 2020 data, at least 65 percent of low-income students at these colleges completed their degrees within six years. We want the students to stay in their major of choice,” he said, whether in the sciences, social sciences or otherwise.

Tutoring

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Fewer than one in 10 college graduates obtained humanities degrees in 2020, down 25 percent since 2012.

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry.

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2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“In the best case scenario, a student would be exposed to media literacy practices and concepts throughout the day, in math classes and science classes, not just in English and social sciences.”. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition.

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OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

More recently, in 2020, the University of Texas at Austin’s Charles A. In fact, admissions officers say students who wish to gain admission to competitive universities often feel compelled to take the course, even if they intend to major in social science or humanities.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

So in the fall of 2019 and the winter of 2020, I worked with a talented team of videographers and producers to fan out to schools across the country—in Indiana, California, Florida and Massachusetts—to capture short documentary videos of classroom teachers. It is some of the last pre-pandemic footage captured in American classrooms.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. .” It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society.

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

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Self-determination theory (eg Ryan & Deci, 2020) suggests that the key drivers of intrinsic motivation are competence (feeling capable at something), autonomy (feeling a sense of control in our choices) and relatedness (feeling a sense of belonging and connection to others). Ryan & Deci (2020). Enser, M. & & Enser, Z.

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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

In October 2020, Digital Promise launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation, as a way to create this support. Frank McCormick, at the time the district’s coordinator for social studies instruction, said those inquiry-based standards were a radical shift from the content-based standards that most students and teachers were used to.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Reflecting the pressures on campuses today, a recent study indicates eroding confidence in higher education: In late 2022 only 55 percent of Americans surveyed said that “colleges and universities were having a positive effect on the way things were going,” compared with 69 percent in early 2020. How do we reverse this crisis in confidence?

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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement. “Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.”

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Indeed, the students in the statistics group were just as likely to complete advanced math courses, along the algebra-to-calculus track, as students who started with remedial algebra, according to co-author Daniel Douglas, director of social science research at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, who led the data analysis.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. This essay describes our attempt to work through the panic and turn our concerns into a learning opportunity.

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OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for the world of work

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Faculty enagement is one of the things that the social science course “Ethnographies of Work” (EOW) accomplishes at CUNY’s Guttman Community College. With Michael Lawrence Collins, she is the editor of “Teaching Students About the World of Work: A Challenge to Postsecondary Educators” (Harvard Education Press, 2020).

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

Political Science Now

JULY 31, 2024

Theoretically, we emphasize the importance of political behavior, social connectivity, governance processes, and citizenship for prospects of sustainable development. Methodologically, we draw from a range of social science research strategies, including surveys, field experiments, interviews, and participant observation.

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

Political Science Now

MARCH 21, 2024

Before joining UCSB, Flora worked as a social scientist at Conservation International from 2018 to 2020, where she studied the diversity and dynamics of global area-based conservation governance systems. Another chapter of her dissertation investigates the unequal health impacts of illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> Territorial Disputes and the Politics of #> Individual Well-Being.” “What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Social Science Quarterly* 100(1): #> 272–88. #> The Social Science #> Journal*.

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

Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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.

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

Steven V. Miller

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. 2020) and available in {peacesciencer} , for which a GDP per capita variable (in 2011 USD) is an easy creation. 4 Here, a correlation coefficient of.701

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Diversity on the Bench: A Conservative’s Advantage?

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 29, 2024

They test these assumptions collecting and examining an original dataset of civil rights cases in 20 US federal district courts from 1995 to 2020. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

Political Science

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Parents fighting, teachers crying: Grownup stress is hitting kids hard

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Bekoe said she’s been dealing with the stress of trying to keep her family safe on top of the constant juggling act of managing her own work as a social science researcher with her children’s online school work. Parents and teachers aren’t fooling us.” Alexis, 17. That means waking up at 4:30 a.m. Teachers are working exorbitant hours.

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Black teachers ground down by racial battle fatigue after a year like no other

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Since March 2020, Black Americans have experienced a perfect storm of social and emotional stressors, including the unequal death toll from Covid-19 in the Black community, the ongoing resurgence of white supremacy and an onslaught of high-profile police killings of Black people. Related: Last week was tough, teachers say.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis. Graham, S., & Hebert, M. Kiuhara, S.

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Member Spotlight: Dr. Elizabeth I. Dorssom, Lincoln University of Missouri

Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Dorssom APSA Member since April 2020 Assistant Professor of Political Science Lincoln University of Missouri How did you learn about APSA? I had just passed my PhD comprehensive exams and planned to use the APSA Annual Meeting as a networking opportunity when I joined APSA in 2020.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. Of the more than 1 million new voters it signed up in all, Vote.org says 34 percent were 18, compared to 8 percent during its 2020 voter registration drive. Census Bureau. Not all groups of students vote in equally high numbers.

Political Science

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OPINION: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This election showed the critical connection between life and social sciences. White students, who are more likely than other racial groups to attend well-financed, higher-performing schools, scored nearly 20 points below the level needed to show proficiency on the National Assessment for Educational Progress in 2015.

Civics

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Webinar Highlights from “Engaging the 2024 U.S. Election: An Experts Roundtable”

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Julia Azari highlighted two significant frameworks: the Biden campaign’s prospective framing, focusing on the potential impacts of a second Trump term, and the Trump campaign’s retrospective framing, which critiques the Biden presidency and addresses political, social, and economic dissatisfaction.

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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten

OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school

To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

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

Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

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

PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for the world of work

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

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

Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

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

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

Diversity on the Bench: A Conservative’s Advantage?

Parents fighting, teachers crying: Grownup stress is hitting kids hard

Black teachers ground down by racial battle fatigue after a year like no other

Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Member Spotlight: Dr. Elizabeth I. Dorssom, Lincoln University of Missouri

College student voting is way up

OPINION: Donald Trump and the white achievement gap

Webinar Highlights from “Engaging the 2024 U.S. Election: An Experts Roundtable”

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