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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

The humanities field has not recovered from that free fall, recently published data from the National Center for Education Statistics show. These include everything from interviewing and archival research to textual interpretation, discourse analysis and ethnographic inquiry. It is for this reason that the Andrew W.

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Building virtual monuments to Black historical figures

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The selection committee was impressed by Owolabi’s skillful use of multiple methodological tools including large-scale statistical analysis and comparative historical analysis based on extensive original archival research across multiple continents.