Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. A 2023 report showed that the experience of solitary confinement is far more prevalent than most previous estimates: for at least 22 hours each day, at least 122,840 people experience solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

million subsurface acres, a term pertaining to oil, gas, minerals, and other underground resources, which distributed $62 million to public institutions in 2023. said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. The state of Montana, for example, manages 5.2

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Jon: And last year, 2023, was a record year, with about 80 colleges closing, many of them small liberal arts colleges with enrollments around 1,000 students or less. Sitting in his living room, looking back on 2023, Horn told me that he and his research team were right. And 2023, the federal money is gone. Kirk: Eighty!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. One government agency has been able to reach Tameka. But her partner worked construction and had a car. When he was around, we never went without,” she says. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We knew the pandemic put a huge strain on a system that was already strained, so this is just a continuous struggle that’s been made worse,” said Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director for MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on supporting policies that help women, mothers and families.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Without the historic level of operational funding that was distributed monthly to child care programs across the United States through September 2023, many providers are experiencing staff departures and shouldering rising costs, leading many to increase tuition for families and some to close classrooms — or worse, close their doors entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed. Among the 30 states and Washington, D.C.,

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 23, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The following PhD candidates have been awarded the grants for the 2023 award cycle. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Saturday 2nd September 2023 New York, NY Credit : Amir Hamja/ The New York Times Credit: Amir Hamja/The New York Times Even as Columbia has swallowed up more land, it has taken fewer students from New York City. built a 23-story glass and steel building in Greenwich Village for $1.2 billion as part of its expansion plans in Lower Manhattan.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. There, he served as the Research and Advocacy Director of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, working with politicians and civil society leaders across Southeast Asia.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. In Israel, attacks on educators and students critical of the state have intensified since October 7, 2023. Unfortunately, Hage’s experience is far from unique right now.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In a city where child care can easily consume more than half of that, Funes was optimistic that she would qualify for a government-funded subsidy to help her afford the cost. The federal government requires that subsidies go to families that make no more than 85 percent of their states median income.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. But the growth since then hasn’t been consistent, and proficiency levels in 2023 for some grades fell below 2019 numbers. News & World Report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says. That’s how he got involved.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. This roundtable will build upon the recent contributions in this idiom of Chambers (2019), Farrell et al (2022), Niemeyer et al (2023), and Minozzi et al (2023), with participants from the authors of all these papers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

7, 2023, Hamas attacks — but the unfolding genocide, including the destruction of Gaza’s public health infrastructure and the intentional creation of famine, must be condemned. We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2023, 3,200 parents were employed in early care and education, and 5,600 children had benefited from the program, Day said. State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). By the summer of 2023, they had collected signatures for a recall vote of Rutledge and Brown, the board’s chair and vice chair respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It Are we enforcing this rule or that rule?“

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. In a 2023 Washington Post investigation , researchers analyzed all book challenges filed in the 2021-22 school year across 37 states. Do your homework.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Its also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. In fiscal year 2023, the Head Start program was funded to serve 778,420 children. To date, Head Start has served nearly 40 million children.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. They led a letter-writing campaign requesting Pennsylvania government officials investigate “school board overreach in Pennridge.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2024

Another poll earlier this year by the Small Business Majority, an advocacy organization with 85,000 members, had similar findings : A third have lost revenue and earnings because of employees’ child care challenges. In 2023, child care cost families $11,582 on average, according to Child Care Aware, a national advocacy organization.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The federal government plays a role in serving those students by issuing guidance, defending their right to a free appropriate public education and providing money. President Donald Trump has vowed to shrink the federal governments role in education. million in revenue it reported that year. million in revenue it reported that year.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Since October 2023, reports of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks have increased in major U.S. Political scientist Barbara Walter tracks the phenomenon of rising anti-government violence in regions around the globe in her book How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them. Last year, the U.S. witnessed more than 650 mass shootings.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Thirteen years later, in 2023, Kansas’s child care system was once again in a state of crisis: The pandemic had decimated the industry. In 2023, the state was short 84,000 slots; in 15 counties, there were no openings for infants or toddlers. Subscribe for free.

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