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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. We are proud to publish these new Book Series together with the American Political Science Association.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Laila Waddell, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Political Science Now

Laila Waddell, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Laila Waddell is a rising senior at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University studying political science with a concentration in environmental studies. She has been active in campus life through student organizations and her department.

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OPINION: When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’

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How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?

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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. Weekly Update.

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Are Educators a Natural Fit for Public Office? These Candidates Think So

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The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Educators are usually empathetic too, Collins says, noting that empathy is a quality missing from our politics today. “In

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Elizabeth Sharrow and James Druckman Receive the 2024 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for “Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports”

Political Science Now

Kammerer Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. Sharrow is working on a book that traces the politics of sex segregation under Title IX since the 1970s, among other projects. The Gladys M.

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Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program

Political Science Now

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. David Broockman , Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, The Nature and Origins of Political Polarization in America Lisa A.