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Funding Graduate Research and Applying for Small Grants: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

APSAs Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Professions virtual workshop series features accessible, high-quality professional development opportunities for political science graduate students. Bakan earned her BA and MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Turkey.

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Learn more about: “Engaging Wisconsin’s Native Americans in Social Science Research: Overcoming Non-Response Survey Challenges”

Political Science Now

Project Title: Engaging Wisconsin’s Native Americans in Social Science Research: Overcoming Non-Response Survey Challenges Natalie Jones-Kerwin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Natalie Jones-Kerwin is a third-year doctoral student in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in American politics.

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College advisers vow to ‘kick the door open’ for Black and Hispanic students despite affirmative action ruling 

The Hechinger Report

Hamza decided to revise his essay from one focused on linguistics to describe experiencing racism and then embracing his Muslim heritage. “I She told the Delaware audience that she’s thriving in her junior year at Howard University, where she is studying political science.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. He married a Jewish-American woman of European heritage. A new study finds that most immigrant groups meet or surpass average U.S.

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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.

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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.