Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. in Economics from Fudan University, China.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

It wasn’t until a group of local leaders from across education, business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropic communities came together to identify challenges and collectively design solutions that real pathways toward income mobility began to emerge for the area’s adult learners. Collaborating Organizations. Brighton Center, Kentucky.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 13, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Honoring the work of several institutions that successfully pivoted to the online space, in fall 2020, NASPA contacted researchers, edtech experts and higher education professionals, including myself, to advise them on what became the Virtual Innovation Awards: Excellence in Delivering Virtual Student Services.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 6, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: The research presented by Sarah Rozenblum in “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? As the title suggests, the dissertation investigates why governments don’t rely on their experts and associated expertise in times of crisis? White Award for “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. Intervening to ensure students have adequate food and housing isn’t just compassionate – it is critical to protecting the financial interests of the government overall.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B) Half Day Short Course 1:30pm – 5:30pm This course introduces the Bayesian logic of qualitative case studies, building on “Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research” (Fairfield & Charman, CUP 2022).

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend. I said, ‘This is bananas. This is not how it works.’”

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APRIL 15, 2024

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity. Research suggests that test-optional or test-free admissions can be one tool in a broader set of reforms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. The federal government, through the U.S. The J-PAL researchers found nine rigorous studies of it.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. ” The World Economic Forum estimates that developing countries lose $1.26 ” The World Economic Forum estimates that developing countries lose $1.26

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you ask some researchers, though, it’s not enough. It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. The report, “ Wicked Opportunities ,” also calls for more investment into research and development. Now, some early data suggests that AI could indeed widen disparities.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Landless tenants and a low-income Hindu minority, they lack the social connections and economic leverage to have any political voice. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Over the next few years, she partnered with the rest of us, researchers focused on household water insecurity , epidemiology, and social work.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. It was the Department of Agriculture. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

One of the research teams, which includes Harvard University economist Tom Kane and Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon, likened the gains to six days of learning in math and three days of learning in reading for every $1,000 in federal pandemic aid per student. And the spending was worth the gains,” Lake added. children.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In When I have written about unrelated educational reforms, researchers often compare them to the effectiveness of class size reductions to give me a sense of their relative impact. In math, it found no benefits at all.

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Political Science Now

MAY 20, 2024

student at the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy. Her research interests include gender in conflict, rebel governance, and illicit markets. Currently, Alianna is researching how individual-level characteristics shape women’s roles in conflict.

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Political Science Now

JULY 25, 2024

Their research develops a new theory that reconciles the tradeoff faced by regimes who have an interest in censoring unfavorable media, but must also maintain favorability among the electorate. His research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy, and spans elections in developing and developed contexts.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. management policies that limit their access.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.). The teens who participated even had higher marriage rates.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. There may be several ways to deal with this challenge politically, including government stipends or agreements. This piece, written by Irem B.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As stewards of our communities, we serve as hubs of learning and research, and now we must incorporate climate literacy and climate action too. We are in the vanguard, too, of real solutions: Much of the research documenting the climate crisis and advancing potential responses originates from colleges and universities.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Employing a pioneering approach that integrated carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis with archaeozoological studies, the research provided unique insights into the intricate nature of these early societies' animal husbandry. Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2024

Each year, the federal government budgets billions of dollars for research and development, and gives much of the money to universities and research laboratories that train and support STEM researchers. Many leave mid-career, when they are at their technical peak for producing breakthrough research.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 24, 2024

Introduction: A Landmark Discovery in Qaleh Kurd Cave In a momentous archaeological breakthrough, French and Iranian researchers have unearthed compelling evidence of early human habitation in Iran's Central Plateau, pushing back the known timeline of human settlement in the region by an astonishing 300,000 years.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce By Emily Tate Sullivan Challenges facing the early care and education workforce have reached crisis levels since the pandemic began, and the federal government has taken notice. And they’re looking to produce real solutions, not just research reports.

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Political Science Now

JULY 23, 2024

She draws on a wealth of original survey research and semi-structured interviews, analyzing data with descriptive and causal inference methodologies. She received a PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2017 and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Texas A&M University.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

The committee agrees that this is research of the highest quality and is thoroughly deserving of the Harold D. Her research won the Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award from the APSA Class and Inequality Section in 2021, the Paul A. in Government from Harvard University in 2023. Lasswell Prize.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. They have an economic impact. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

It’s well-known that women have been especially impacted by pandemic-related economic upheaval. Research has found that emotional distress from job loss does not necessarily impact a parent’s capacity to be a responsive caregiver, particularly if the government steps in with financial assistance to help make up the gap.

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