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Making their work count: Political Science students improve Wikipedia

MPSA

Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education Through its ongoing partnership with Wiki Education , MPSA has been helping political science and policy students engage with subject content in meaningful and lasting ways all while improving the world’s access to reliable knowledge in these very fields. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education — with one big exception

The Hechinger Report

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. In 2004, the late Harvard political science professor Sam Huntington made the argument that recent immigrants, particularly Hispanics, weren’t assimilating well into American society.

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

The Hechinger Report

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.