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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

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There is currently a concerted effort at the local, state, and federal levels of government to undermine, discredit, and discourage those tasked with teaching and studying black politics. European Union), multilevel, corporate, or global citizenship.

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Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

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But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. Daniel Willingham, psychology professor at the University of Virginia. “We

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I What we wanted to be able to do is teach educators the psychology of stress, the biology of stress and evidenced-based strategies to manage stress, for themselves and for their kids,” he said.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

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Summer RISE (Reimagining an Innovative Student Experience) is an initiative led by the MCPS’s Department of Partnerships in collaboration with businesses, government agencies, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government.

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Webinar Series: Engaging the 2024 U.S. Election: An Expert Roundtable

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Dr. Michael Tesler ’s teaching and research focus on public opinion, racial politics, elections, political psychology, American government, and quantitative research methods. Dr. Michelle Allendoerfer has led the American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Professional Development Programs for the past three years.