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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. A new superintendent, James Henderson, took over in 2018.

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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

I even found “Heather” again: In December 2021, a Pennsylvania school district ordered the removal of the book from all of its elementary-school libraries over parental objections, leading its author, Lesléa Newman, to declare : “It’s 1992 all over again.”. “No Purple for Parents Indiana. It’s a reaction to social advances.”.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Leadership The annual Teach Truth Day of Action is coordinated by Rethinking Schools’ and Teaching for Change’s Zinn Education Project and led by educators around the country with the support of the co-sponsors listed below. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023.

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Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

Sapiens

In February 2021, amid climbing COVID-19 death rates and heightened global attention on police-related deaths of Black Americans and on the Black Lives Matter movement, over 150 forensic anthropologists gathered for an urgent virtual meeting to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

Anthropology News

Notably, anthropologists’ leadership in what’s now known as UX research isn’t new or obscure: Lucy Suchman and other anthropologists helped pioneer it in the late 1970s. In other words, anthropologists happen to already be in the thick of one of the most pressing aspects of data in the twenty-first century.