The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When Kim Rider and her team contact a former student, they aren’t just checking in — they’re also gathering data. Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. The 4,000-student school district offers classes in agriculture and health sciences, courses in coding and welding, and internships at the local hospital and the district offices.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Welcome to The Dispatch, a Heinemann podcast series. Over the next several weeks, we'll hear from Heinemann thought leaders as they reflect on the work they do in schools across the country and discuss, from their perspective, the most pressing issues in education today. Today we'll hear from longtime collaborators, Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Dear Reader, If my newsletter landed in your inbox, you care about college students. If you’re a person in the world, you know that mental health challenges are real.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The post How 4 Community College Faculty Are Preparing Students for a Global Workforce appeared first on Digital Promise.

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Jeremy F. G. Moulton ( jeremy.moulton@york.ac.uk ) Aside from reading the odd political thriller novel, for many the link between creative writing and political science will seem like a tenuous one. The use of the scientific method (as … The post Using science fiction and creative writing in a political science classroom appeared first on APSA.

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Steven V. Miller

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Ohio State alumnus Chester Bliss (right) formalized and named the intuition behind the 'probit'. Ronald A. Fisher (left) worked with him to devise the MLE method for fitting probit lines to data. Teaching an advanced quantitative methods class is leading me deeper into the world of generalized linear models (GLMs) for a curriculum that would otherwise clutch the OLS estimator as if it were a matter of life or death.

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Elizabeth A. Bennion ( ebennion@iu sb.edu) I recently received a request from the St. Joe Valley Notre Dame Club to co-present the annual Hesburgh lecture. They asked me to team up with Notre Dame business professor Amanda … The post Civil Discourse: Helping Students to Become Conversation Partners appeared first on APSA.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Crossing the Rockcastle River on the Wilderness Road just south of Livingston, Kentucky, with John Graham on December 2, 2021. 300,000 pioneers crossed this Ford after 1796 when the Wilderness Road was opened.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Famous Black Scientists Who Made History Feb 8, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Our world would look very different without the scientists who have made breakthroughs in our technology and advanced our understanding of medicine, astronomy, physics, and chemistry. During Black History Month, learn about these Black scientists who made history with their monumental contributions to scientific advancement despite obstacles of racial injustice.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2024 Pedagogy Award kskordal Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:00 Image The 2024 Pedagogy Award has an upcoming deadline of April 22, 2024, and is open to both faculty and instructors in institutions of higher education and K-12 teachers of classics. SCS membership is not required. Funds may be used to support professional development, purchase or creation of educational resources, and curriculum development and enhancement, including class trips.

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Elizabeth Dorssom (DorssomE@lincolnu.ed u) Active learning is an important component of classrooms as it helps students reinforce information after listening to a professor’s lecture (Lang 2021). The incorporation of active learning in a classroom helps students make connections with … The post Using a Smart Board to teach federalism in American National Government appeared first on APSA.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature kskordal Thu, 02/08/2024 - 09:29 Image The Department of Latin at the University of Basel, Switzerland, is pleased to invite applications for the fourth round of Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature. Generously funded by the PLuS Foundation Basel, the programme offers an opportunity for early career researchers as well as established scholars to pursue their research in Latin literature in the framework of a fully funded research stay of up to three months

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Diana Owen ( owend@georgetown.edu ), Donna P. Phillips ( phillips@civiced.org ), and Alissa Irion-Groth ( irion@civiced.org ) The civic mission of schools—providing students with “the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will prepare them to be competent and responsible … The post Transforming civics for high-need students by using design-based implementation research appeared first on APSA.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association invites applications for a new editor or editorial team for State Politics and Policy Quarterly (SPPQ). The editorship is a four-year term to edit manuscripts that are submitted to SPPQ between January 2025 and December 2028. We encourage nominations as well as proposals.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The following is the opening letter from Shamari Reid’s upcoming, Humans Who Teach, now available for preorder.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Jair Peltier, Bear clan of the Anishinaabe, is currently enrolled at the Catholic University of America in a Human Rights Master’s program with their Institute of Human Ecology. He is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, where he is an adjunct professor of American government and politics at Turtle Mountain Community College. Jair’s main academic experience is in American politics, international political economy, as well as comparative politics.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Neolithic era stands as a pivotal period in human history, marked by the dawn of agriculture and profound societal transformations. Recent research 1 illuminates the journey of farming techniques from their origins in Europe to the shores of prehistoric North Africa, unraveling a tapestry of migration, cultural exchange, and genetic blending.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Project Title: Embodied Borders: Transborder Mobility and Mental Health at Mexico-U.S. Ports of Entry Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, University of Pennsylvania Estefanía Castañeda Pérez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in political science, her research interests include border policing, mental health among transborder populations, the conceptualization and consequences of violence, and border politic

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Darrell Carter ( darrell.carter@unlv.edu ) The current events shaping student development and perception have taught a common enough lesson that may systematically alter student norms on academic dishonesty. Living through events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, mass protest … The post Life isn’t fair but out classrooms could be: Mitigating stress to address academic dishonesty appeared first on APSA.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This story was produced by The 19th and republished with permission. Doubts swirled from the start. After Cynthia King’s baby Wiley Muir died suddenly at a home-based day care in Honolulu, she fixated on the things that seemed off. The medical examiner said he died of pneumonia, but Wiley hadn’t been sick that morning. King wondered how sickness could take him so suddenly — how they could have missed that.

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