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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Ideally, from a research perspective, youd want to randomly assign students with disabilities to both types of classrooms and see where they learn more.

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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. Blavatskyy postulated that there is a positive relationship between the median BMI and a countrys level of government corruption.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories. These scholars are using their research on the precolonial past to sow sustainable futures—like the worlds inhabited by Abena and Akaina. Outside forces uprooted that security.

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Portland’s Universal Pre-K Proposal Was Hailed as a ‘National Model.’ How’s the Rollout Going?

ED Surge

An article in The New York Times in November 2020 suggested the Multnomah County initiative could be a national model and a blueprint for the rest of the United States. With the latter, preschool programs are vulnerable to changes in governance or an economic downturn.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Sapiens

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.) As a New York Times article describes, roti is a recipe mastered through repetition. where I teach.

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Call for Applications: 2025 JPSA-APSA Working Group on Civically Engaged Research for Critical Issues in Society “Political Transitions in Aging Societies”

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Japanese Political Science Association (JPSA) are pleased to announce a Call for Applications for early-career scholars from the US and Japan who are interested in conducting civically engaged research related to the social and political impacts of demographic change.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. I had a blast.