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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In 2022 and 2023, it gave Boaler’s organization more than $560,000. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics.

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

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media. Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion.

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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

A design studio at the Bristol Warren Regional School District in Rhode Island hosted by the Center for Inclusive Innovation in the spring of 2022. The center selected two districts for the project: Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, and the Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona.

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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. Vida Mendoza, the Life Academy freshman, is looking forward to 2022 when she could be among those teen voters.

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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

Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g.,

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Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

Political Science Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B) Half Day Short Course 1:30pm – 5:30pm This course introduces the Bayesian logic of qualitative case studies, building on “Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research” (Fairfield & Charman, CUP 2022).

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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

In 2022, Mississippi’s fourth graders eligible for free lunch (a marker used to estimate poverty) performed significantly higher on the NAEP reading test than similarly low-income children in 43 other states and the District of Columbia. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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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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Celebrating a Decade of Collaboration: APSA and Zayed University Faculty

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The sessions were a follow-up to the March 2022 workshop on Machine Learning for Social Scientists, led by Dr. Skyler Cranmer from Ohio State University. As a researcher with an interdisciplinary background, the fellowship strengthened my abilities to conduct research in political science in the MENA context.

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Silenced Confirmation Hearings: Women and People of Color Interrupted More

Political Science Now

JUNE 10, 2024

The data include all publicly available senator and nominee hearing statements before the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1939 to 2022, consisting of about 40,000 statements. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

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PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In a 2018 article , 24 researchers declared that the Google effect was one of many dubious claims in social sciences. That same year, the veracity of the Google effect was debated at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, where scholars described repeated failures.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. At EUI, he offers seminars on international relations theory, international institutions, qualitative methods, and philosophies of social science.

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Call for Editors: State Politics & Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) Journal

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The journal boasted a 2022 impact factor of 1.5 Past editors at SPPQ have worked with the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina to support the journal’s Data Verification and Replication Policy. states and other sub-national governments worldwide.

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Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science teacher at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Corey Winchester (he/him), history and social science teacher and staff coordinator of Students Organized Against Racism (SOAR) at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois.

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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 lack of focus on writing in education is baffling, given the positive impacts of writing on learning. Harvard Educational Review , 81(4), 710-744. Shanahan, T.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 sparked panic among instructors who realized it can answer homework questions, analyze data, and generate whole essays in seconds (although its facts and citations may not always be trustworthy). This essay describes our attempt to work through the panic and turn our concerns into a learning opportunity.

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Short Course: Studying Causal Mechanisms Using In-Depth Case Studies (QMMR D)

Political Science Now

AUGUST 14, 2024

Studying Causal Mechanisms Using In-Depth Case Studies (QMMR D) Half Day Short Course 9:00am – 1:00pm The study of causal mechanisms (aka causal processes) is ubiquitous in the social sciences. that grievances are linked to democratization through social mobilization).

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Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program

Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2024

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University.

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Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nationwide, between 2012 and 2022 the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities English, history, languages, literature, philosophy and related subjects fell 24 percent , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. But its become an existential one. Its a question weve ignored.

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Careers at Community Colleges: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions

Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Paul Gottemoller is a tenured Professor of Political Science at Del Mar College, where he currently serves as Assistant Chair in the Department of Social Sciences. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022).

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 1

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

drug companies) and individual private interests rather than for basic investigative research leading to new approaches in science and medicine. In 2000, 57% of science research funding was derived from federal sources, and 20% from business. ” Science Insider , January 6. References Diamond, D., Wadman, Meredith.

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

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. His research focuses on mathematical methods, especially bargaining theory, computational social science, machine learning, and mixed methods. This is no easy task. Neustadt Award.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Young voters had “a decisive impact” on Senate races in 2022 in battleground states including Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, which is also based at Tufts. They have also registered and voted at high rates in several swing states.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

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

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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

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

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

Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

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

Celebrating a Decade of Collaboration: APSA and Zayed University Faculty

Silenced Confirmation Hearings: Women and People of Color Interrupted More

PROOF POINTS: A spate of recent studies on the “Google effect” adds to evidence that the internet is making us dumber

Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Call for Editors: State Politics & Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) Journal

Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Short Course: Studying Causal Mechanisms Using In-Depth Case Studies (QMMR D)

Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program

WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly

Careers at Community Colleges: Applying to Jobs at 2-Year Institutions

Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 1

Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

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

College student voting is way up

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