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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Executive Director Full Time Position – (OPEN) Senior Management District of Columbia, Washington, DC, US The American Political Science Association seeks an Executive Director to serve as the chief executive officer of the Association beginning in or around August 2024.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. Department of Education.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 16, 2024

Project Title: Racialized and Gendered Relief: How Working Women Experienced Pandemic Policies Margaret Brower Margaret Perez Brower is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. institutions, higher education, political behaviors, and social movements.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We A report in October by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University found that more education generally yields higher earnings — but not always.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

They were just leaving higher education with debt and nothing to show for it.”. Problems with low success rates are widespread in American higher education. Like many other higher education institutions, FAU is increasingly using data to see where students lose their way and how to get them back on track.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online higher education may cost more than it could for students and earn less for universities thanks to a little-known $1 billion industry of for-profit middlemen that gets as much as 80% of the proceeds in commissions. revenues of $1 billion annually, may be thwarting the innovative potential of online education.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In the past, said Brandon Stokes, director of retention and student success at Meredith, “some students, especially considering how anxiety has crept into higher education, would have a horrible experience and even be paralyzed by the stress” of picking their own schedules. A lot of students can’t make up their minds about a major, either.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 21, 2024

Or perhaps the group against X is too resource-constrained to respond to your greater advocacy. Of course there are other scenarios here. Your involvement on behalf of X might just be flat-out decisive. That said, those descriptors (and others) might apply as well to either side of the dispute, your side included.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. But a lot of those jobs have moved on and the ones that are here require some higher education.”. Meanwhile, the wage gap between college-educated adults and those with only high school degrees has steadily increased over the last four decades. “In

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 7, 2024

Yet there are still too few opportunities for people to develop practical political understanding, strategies, and skills – unlike business, the biggest subject in higher education and online. He founded Democracy Matters, an alliance for learning practical politics, Charter 99, and co-founded the Parenting Education and Support Forum.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

By: Dr. Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education Through its ongoing partnership with Wiki Education , MPSA has been helping political science and policy students engage with subject content in meaningful and lasting ways all while improving the world’s access to reliable knowledge in these very fields. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Many parents are stuck, said Jennifer Greppi, parent policy director at Parent Voices California, an advocacy organization. Alexis Jordan, a single mom of four who lives outside of Puyallup, Washington, is working on a bachelors degree in social work and political science while keeping part-time hours as a housekeeper.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 24, 2024

by Colleen McCoy, Communications and Outreach Coordinator at Wiki Education This blog has been reprinted with permission from Wiki Education. in International Education Policy and Management with a focus on Latin American Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2017. election year. She received her M.Ed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

When education became a focal point in gubernatorial elections this November, it was no surprise to Keri Rodrigues, president and co-founder of the National Parents Union. At the time, the group’s stated mission was to make education a more prominent issue in the upcoming presidential election.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

And its creation is a sign of how professors and others in higher education want to make the case that, in spite of perennial laments about the crisis in the humanities, theyre very much alive, especially if you look beyond dismal stats about funding cuts, threatened departments and declining majors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our schools are for education, not indoctrination,” Abbott said at an event at the capital last spring. Charles Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, a public-school advocacy group. “It That, to me, is the state’s responsibility — not to pick and choose who gets an education.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: These schools say they’re aiming to balance the right to protest with the rights of other students looking to get an education or use a public space. A new survey finds that two thirds of students say the protests didn’t have any effect at all on their educations. We call that education.

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MPSA

APRIL 11, 2019

Bennett , Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, was a major proponent. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos , maintain that professors are still involved in this liberal or radical assault on free speech. Try Disclosure appeared first on Midwest Political Science Association. Buckley, Jr.’s

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The political division they’ve witnessed hasn’t discouraged young voters, said LoMonte, a sophomore political science major from Bloomfield, New Jersey, who was wearing a “TCNJ Votes” T-shirt. It’s not enough to throw our hands in the air and give up,” said Williams, a senior political science major from Union, New Jersey.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Additionally, regional and subgroup differences have guided the reshaping of political allegiances, bounded by targeted messaging on immigration and economic stability. Historical Context “Critical issues like inflation, healthcare, and education often hold differing importance across Latino subgroups.

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