Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

The prize committee thought that the article was innovative, as it challenges our conceptions of valuable components of grading. The article focuses on how to assess learning gains through student effort and engagement as opposed to summative demonstration of knowledge only.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Electoral College process respects the federal character of the United States, giving certain roles to the states and others to the federal government. Much of the discussion during the Constitutional Convention revolved around measures needed to balance the powers of the state and national governments. How does the process work?

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. In early March of 2009, I was reading my local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, and came across an article on Twitter. As I read the article I learned more about Twitter and its capabilities.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Read the full article.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

A version of this article first appeared at the Medium site of the Stanford GSE Office of Innovation and Technology. As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

My Twitter feed is full of articles and blogs discussing the research on homework, particularly at the elementary level, and how counterproductive it can actually be. It was even worse for those students juggling sports, debate, student government, or afternoon jobs. Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

Does this sort of approach to government and daily life make a better settlement? Early American Government Journal Prompts The Articles of Confederation failed because the central government was too weak. Colonists didn’t want another king, so most of the government’s power was divided among the states.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

As one young woman put it in a recent New York Times article , “If it wasn’t for these youth work-force programs, I don’t think I would have realized I wanted to be a mechanical engineer.”. The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. If Russia isn’t yet as bold in the Baltics, that’s probably more because of NATO’s Article 5, which says that an attack on one member state is an attack on all.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Great Compromise Organizer Students read a brief article about the Great Compromise, identifying: The issue at stake The two opposing sides The compromise itself This activity helped them see how differing viewpoints shaped the structure of Congress and highlighted the balance of interests between large and small states. government.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Yet most legislators and educators do not have access to these articles.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom. In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

Several days later, after I successfully climbed the 5,000-meter mountain, I returned to the cafe to find the kittens just as eager to snuggle with me as I answered emails and worked on articles. In Australia, the government has taken the controversial measure of culling millions of feral cats. Cats are all over Turkey.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Read on for the highlights, article links, and related content. ‘Managing up’ is a form of communication to “influence your supervisor in making decisions or taking action that’s in the best interest of the organization,” according to this article from Edutopia. . Here are our top picks for the Feb.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” Outside forces uprooted that security. Logan and Kuma began to challenge assumptions about why and how hunger became a modern problem in West Africa.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

Kelly points out in his article, published in the peer-reviewed journal Educational Researcher, that researchers often exclude the highest spending districts because they’re such outliers and have a tendency to push up national averages. “When the Yankees spend more, it makes it harder for everyone else to compete.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of my most resourceful students, Sheliya, found an article about the Open Homes project, a program created by Airbnb that offered free emergency housing to displaced people due to natural disasters. Despite widespread publicity, this student could not find one wildfire victim who had successfully participated in the program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2020

Articles about the inequities inherent in podding often reach the same conclusion: there isn’t much choice for parents. We need city government, elected officials and businesses to start thinking about how to empower parent communities to provide off-day care for every family. It’s the nature of the times in which we live.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. And it’s not always clear how well peer-support programs work.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. See a sample itinerary here. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

Örsel , covers the new article by Alina Utrata, University of Cambridge, Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley As the countdown of a rocket launch, announcing “10, 9, 8, …,” excitement is in the air. This piece, written by Irem B. This situation is like the days when corporations were players in claiming new lands.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. At least, in theory. That’s not a new ideology within education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

A disclosure here: My husband is an adviser to Lyft, but this article was written independently.). Other localities can and should pass similar legislation that extends the same protections to all workers, including those in the gig economy, and the federal government should encourage them to do so.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

So our reporters and editors have been reflecting on the articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us most this year and we’re sharing them with you. I also learned a lot from this Scientific American article, “ U.S. This collection includes selections related to education and some that reach far beyond the classroom.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

To counter this, teachers emphasize the inverted pyramid style, which prioritizes placing the most crucial information at the beginning of the article, or even in the headline. government. Consider this: In 1918, Congress passed the Sedition Act, forbidding “disloyal language” about the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. In theory, government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures. Credit: Yvonne Mendez. They could have warned us.”.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2024

Örsel , covers the new article by Diane Bolet, Fergus Green, and Mikel González-Eguino, How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a “Just Transition Agreement” on Spanish Election Results? There may be several ways to deal with this challenge politically, including government stipends or agreements.

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Political Science Now

JULY 5, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jae-Hee Jung and Scott Clifford, “Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive.” In a new APSR article, Jae-Hee Jung and Scott Clifford show that we don’t see all values as a matter of right and wrong. or “less or more government?”)

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, Rocket Learning. Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. Programmatically, we reach about 1.5

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