The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Related: How higher education lost its shine The saying “where you stand depends on where you sit” is apt in this debate; I’m executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, and I’m struck by how infrequently colleges of arts and sciences are factored into the conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

It took Jasmine Lane five years to discover and fulfill her passion for English literature and teaching — but a year and half to burn out. In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. . …

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S. overemphasizes small classes at the expense of good teaching. Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. This is even more the case under Covid-19 with community colleges under pressure to help hourly wage workers who have suffered the most in the economic downturn gain new skills.

Economics 98

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. Script a short teaching sequence to perform. Parsing the practice of teaching.

Professional Development 130

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ACRE

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.

Economics 52

Economics Lesson Plan Civics Policy Impact 52

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. The human past has been shaped by harnessing and consuming materials and energy.

Humanities 87

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 87

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

Political Science 56

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. He has many years of methods teaching experience at Georgetown and at summer methods institutes around the world. She is the co-author, with A.E.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

Sociology 49

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, I enrolled in the theatre and dance program where I now teach. My teaching, in response, is strategic. The common wisdom, including in the business and arts fields, is that employers don’t value an arts degree. My colleagues and I would beg to differ. My lessons were piecemeal.

Cultures 69

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

We’re still suffering from the consequences of the culture war, where the humanities in particular and also the social sciences and now even the sciences are seen as ideologically driven,” Hoeckley said. China and other economic rivals add them. It’s an uphill fight,” said Hoeckley, who teaches philosophy.

Humanities 92

Humanities Social Science History Economics 92

Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

make use of some of the methods and techniques I teach them. If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. European Union, OECD states), economic groupings (e.g.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

This second cohort includes eight talented educators teaching at public, charter, independent and parochial schools, from Hawaii to Michigan: Whitney Aragaki (she/they), high school biology and environmental science teacher at Wai?kea Avery Thrush (she/her), sixth grade science teacher at STEM Prep Academy in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

MAY 1, 2024

I spent two years in Jamaica teaching in a new graduate school of social sciences… Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in Ghana for my PhD and published a book, The Political Economy of Agriculture, plus several articles on Ghana’s urban informal economy.

Social Science 40

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. In the final stage of the project, students situated medical AI tools in a broader social and economic context.

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Steven V. Miller

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I’m teaching an undergraduate class on quantitative methods where I’ve been cautioned—repeatedly—the students are not super eager to go as hard and fast as I’d like on this material. Does democracy precede economic development? Does economic development precede democracy? Here are the R packages I’ll be using in this post.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.

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Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography 52

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. For Europeans, World War I was devastating.

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Archiving American History Library History 91

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Recent years have seen extensive discussion over how to achieve scientific progress in the social sciences. His research focuses on mathematical methods, especially bargaining theory, computational social science, machine learning, and mixed methods. This is no easy task.

Political Science 72

Political Science Economics Social Science Government 72

MPSA

APRIL 11, 2019

One of our sister social sciences—economics—is among the least liberal of the academic disciplines. I disclose my own political views while teaching and am careful not to teach my views as fact. Congress need only pass the appropriate legislation to make it happen. Some states are doing this already.

Political Science 52

Political Science Social Science Economics Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

There is a learning gap that is threatening economic and social productivity in the U.S. Voting data gives us insight into how people put into practice the information, facts and teaching they’ve received. Voting data gives us insight into how people put into practice the information, facts and teaching they’ve received.

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Civics American History Leadership History 131

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

As soon as possible, they join the workforce and pay back their student loans, and I don’t blame them,” said Ghazinour, an assistant professor who teaches data privacy and related topics on this campus less than 40 miles from where the Republicans will hold their national convention this month. China and other economic rivals add them.

Economics 75

Economics Humanities Anthropology History 75

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Örsel On June 18, 2024, the American Political Science Association (APSA) organized the second webinar in its Engaging the 2024 U.S. She holds a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and a Master’s in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University.

Political Science 56

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