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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. DEI instructors are suffering the consequences.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. Content is hard.

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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

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., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., percent.

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Same Old Story in Silicon Valley

Political Science Now

Thinking about the destination of the rocket, the things they may do, and all the possibilities, they are witnessing the history of science. Her primary research interests are comparative political behavior, populism, judicial behavior, and computational social science methods. UTRATA, ALINA.

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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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Announcing Our New EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellows

ED Surge

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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Transforming Data into Human Stories: Machine-Learning-Based Models to Estimate Age-at-Death of Undocumented Migrants

Anthropology News

In 2023, we witnessed a tragic surge in migrant deaths along migratory routes worldwide, marking it as one of the deadliest years on record according to the statistics from the Missing Migrant Project , with an estimated more than 8,000 cases.