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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field. 26, 2023 session of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference in Washington D.C. I felt that it really gave me breadth as a human being.” It adds something to your life.

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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Political Science Now

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. She received her Ph.D.

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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

The actual names may vary: We have the College of Arts and Sciences, while Stanford — where I earned my Ph.D. in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. Colleges of arts and sciences are the beating hearts of many universities. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., percent.

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

Political Science Now

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships. Terman earned her B.A.

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

The Hechinger Report

The third and final chapter of this long-term study was published in the January/February 2023 issue of the journal Educational Researcher , and as I pored over this body of research, I became confused about what it proved. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”

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Learn More About: Toward Queer Climate Justice

Political Science Now

They have published in Energy Research & Social Science and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume. in political science, with a doctoral emphasis in feminist studies, from the University of California, Santa Barbara and their A.B. They received their M.A.

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Celebrating a Decade of Collaboration: APSA and Zayed University Faculty

Political Science Now

The training collaboration between the department and APSA coincided with the establishment of the Social Sciences Lab at the college and thus, both workshops aimed at supporting the mission of the lab to disseminate cutting-edge skills among the faculty.