The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. Researchers have long found correlations between a child’s knowledge and reading scores, but that’s not the same as proving that building knowledge first is what causes reading comprehension to flourish later.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students to be able to analyze data, create charts and spreadsheets and reason mathematically – skills that high school math courses often skip or rush through. Majors that require calculus were excluded.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

“It’s a great feeling of satisfaction,” said Logue, now a research professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center, “because it isn’t just CUNY. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference. It’s across the country, using this really great evidence to help make things better.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

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.,

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements 2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2 nd edition, Social Justice Movements 2023. Rogelio Garcia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at East Los Angeles College.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. College writing in 2023 means reckoning with students’ use of ChatGPT.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 8, 2024

In December 2023, APSA’s Middle East and North Africa Program launched a research methods training initiative for early-career scholars from the Arab MENA region. Additionally, the program offered designated office hours for fellows to seek feedback and guidance on their research. Led by Drs.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their research and teaching focuses on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. 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.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 4, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. There is valuable research on how allowing or not allowing dual citizenship affects immigrants’ chances to naturalize. This piece, written by Irem B.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Her primary research interests are comparative political behavior, populism, judicial behavior, and computational social science methods. UTRATA, ALINA.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Critics say she misrepresents research to make her case and her ideas actually impede students. This is a whole effort to shut me down, my research and my writing,” said Boaler. “I Cognitive science research suggests that students need a lot of practice and memorization to master math. That tells us something.”

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

An anthropologist who researches coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians argues such critics need more than free speech protections. As a professor at an Israeli university who leads a research project on coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, I’ve witnessed the threats firsthand.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. Meet the New Editors Marisa Abrajano is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests focus on racial and ethnic inequalities in the U.S. This is no easy task.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Clearly, age estimation is a challenge for researchers and forensic personnel.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 10, 2025

Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts. Indirect costs (IDCs) are those administrative expenses a university or other research organization incurs in providing the infrastructure to support a project.

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