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Political Science Scholar, Janelle Wong, Elected to the Academy of Political and Social Science 2024 Fellowship

Political Science Now

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will welcome eight scholars as 2024 fellows this fall. It is a privilege to welcome another highly accomplished cohort of social scientists as fellows of the AAPSS, and it is especially gratifying to award inaugural fellowships in memory of Academy Fellows James S.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Our primary guide for observing these learning environments was a book by Vanderbilt University Professor Rich Milner called Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There , which offers a framework of opportunity-centered teaching. What a great writing prompt. What a terrific life skill to be sharing.

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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement

Political Science Now

PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Announces Partnership Agreement on New Political Science Professional Development Book Series WASHINGTON D.C. Books in these Book Series will continue to serve these audiences well.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. million book images from the Internet Archive. . We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us.

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Reading, writing and arguing: Can a summer of big questions push students to college?

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development.

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Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Zinn Education Project

Woodson Institute, the Social Science Research Council, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia’s Carter G.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. I see it as a form of knowledge suppression.”