The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2024

WATERVILLE, Maine — For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son’s college tuition on a teacher’s salary is “scary. It’s very stressful.” To pay for it, “I’m thinking, what can I sell?” Kayser, who was touring Colby College with her high school-age son, Matt, is among the many Americans in the middle who earn too much to qualify for need-based financial aid, but not enough to simply write a check to send their kids to college.

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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. But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Blog: Pushing Back: Odysseys in Folkestone, U.K.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The post Micro-credential Platform: Our 2024 Fall Updates appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This Post Assumes Some Familiarity with {WDI} ⤵️ My undergraduate students reading this post, thinking about potential topics for their quantitative methods course or their C-papers, should read my earlier tutorial on how to use the {WDI} package in R. There's no business like Mr. Jim Business Students in my quantitative methods class are (ideally) having to think about their end-of-the-course short papers and their BA theses that will (ideally!

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History kskordal Thu, 10/24/2024 - 13:59 Image Call for Fellowship Applications Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Year 2: Comparative Work Many of the lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Ten young people had winning ideas for improving civic knowledge and media literacy, increasing civic and political engagement, or building trust in one another and democratic institutions.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 24, 2024

by Colleen McCoy, Communications and Outreach Coordinator at Wiki Education This blog has been reprinted with permission from Wiki Education. In the ever-evolving landscape of information, the need for accurate, well-sourced content has never been more critical, particularly in the midst of this U.S. election year. Fearful of the technical side of editing Wikipedia but motivated to join the fight against misinformation, political scientist Dr.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Macropartisanship Revisited By Donald P. Green , Columbia University , Brian T. Hamel , University of North Texas and Michael G. Miller , Barnard College Canonical work argues that macropartisanship—the aggregate distribution of Democrats and Republicans in the country at a given time—is responsive to the economic and political environment. In other words, if times are good when Democrats are in charge (or bad when Republicans are in charge), more Americans will identify with the Democratic Part

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