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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

Political Science Now

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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OPINION: Legacy admissions are unnecessary, raise moral concerns and exclude deserving students

The Hechinger Report

In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong. Patricia Illingworth is a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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“Stay out of my hair!”

The Hechinger Report

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

She argues, in line with the international human rights position, that children are citizens, too, and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. A Human Rights Watch report from 2008 chronicles more accounts in a section titled “‘The Devil’s Bargain’: Choosing to be Beaten. During the February hearing, Rep.

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Farhana Loonat Receives the 2024 APSA Community College Faculty Award

Political Science Now

She is a Fulbright Scholar, International Peace Scholar, recipient of the Associated Federation of Teacher’s Cesar Chavez Human Rights award, and one of University of London’s 2022 Contemporary Woman Philosophers. Dr. Loonat’s forthcoming book (2025) examines white supremacy in U.S.

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TEACHER VOICE: What was troubling enough as 20th century history is happening in the present time

The Hechinger Report

Black representatives were elected to state and federal government, public schools were made available (for all children), and many (though tragically only a fraction of) formerly enslaved families were reunited. All of these activities convey the life lesson that history books or news media are not neutral.

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