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Learn more about: Examining Women’s Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles

Political Science Now

Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Read about the funded projects.

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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years. Rogelio Garcia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at East Los Angeles College. He holds a Ph.D.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Call for Applications: 2025 JPSA-APSA Working Group on Civically Engaged Research for Critical Issues in Society “Political Transitions in Aging Societies”

Political Science Now

The program is open to all political science subfields, and we especially encourage applications from scholars who are undertaking research in collaboration with civil society or local government partners. Scholars from other social science disciplines undertaking research related to the workshop theme are also welcome to apply.

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PROOF POINTS: Pandemic relief money is flowing to class-size reduction but research evidence for it isn’t strong

The Hechinger Report

Lead researcher Trine Filges, an economist at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, sees the oft-cited Tennessee experiment not as indicative of what class size reduction can achieve but as one “very old study,” now dating back more than 30 years.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

ED Surge

However, after taking matters into her own hands, Sheliya was able to find a person on social media that secured housing via Open Homes. Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city.