Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Lebanon High School. Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas, provided a substitute teacher so that Lohrding could fly on a Friday into Burbank Airport in time for the seminars opening reception and dinner that night.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby’s next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20 forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own. She lost her mother at age 8. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Related: OPINION: Our education system is not setting up students for success Research published this month shows that Black students who attended Southern desegregated schools in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s experienced positive lifelong cognitive effects. And data from the U.S. GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 trillion larger.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Honestly, I didn’t really learn anything at all this semester,” said Smith, a political science major. “I So he’s decided to spend the summer taking the math and science classes he needs — still online, but at a lower cost — by doing it through nearby Broward College, which serves mostly students pursuing associate degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

In high school, she was accepted and started mapping out her future. But the potential cost of school caused arguments between her and her parents, then her fiancé broke up with her abruptly, and her mother, who was already pregnant, got sick. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Gilmore boasts a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Striding into a packed community center filled with high school seniors, Atnre Alleyne has a few words of advice for the crowd, members of the first class of college applicants to be shaped by June’s Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious admissions. WILMINGTON, Del. But we will have to see. I felt really upset about it.

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Political Science Now

JULY 26, 2024

Join us for the 17th APSA Teaching & Learning Conference (TLC) , “Teaching Political Science Matters.” Join us for a unique meeting to promote greater understanding of high-impact practices and innovative methodologies for the political science classroom.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. And many of her students’ parents do not speak English.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New England — for which he’s still paying off his student loans — Kelly realized that what he actually wanted to do was become a firefighter; after all, he said, unlike a politician, no one is ever angry to see a firefighter show up. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

As the start of the school year approaches, high schools, colleges and universities across the country are figuring out how to help young people navigate the 2024 elections during these highly polarized and contentious times. Laurel Elder is professor and chair of political science at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When the afternoon bell rang, Autumn Edwards, a high school senior in the Methow Valley, on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, rushed out of class to her 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck — and to her job at a ranch. Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. It’s supposed to be the great equalizer,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. Aimee Chartier served four years in the U.S. She carried a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Generally, colleges of arts and sciences are large academic units within a university that offer a range of department-led majors and areas of study, research and creative activity: from the arts (e.g., English and other languages, history, religious studies), the social sciences (e.g., dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Inferring learning gains from their current coursework is complicated across subjects as varied as political science and computer programing. He teamed up with a political science professor, Mika LaVaque-Manty , who was also experimenting with ways to motivate students through games.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Political science. And that, I think, is a part of the politics of resentment. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nayeli Perez, an 18-year-old senior at the Academy at Palumbo, a public magnet high school in central Philadelphia. Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Uchenna Ihekwereme walked to the front row of the 150-person auditorium for a political science class at the University of Georgia. It was a total culture shock” after attending a racially diverse high school, she said. “I But they said they don’t keep a record of which high schools they visit. ATHENS, Ga.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2019

It’s a problem contributing to a widening skills gap in rural communities across the country: Not only are rural high school graduates less likely than their urban and suburban counterparts to go to college; higher education institutions in many of these places aren’t training them to fill the jobs that are their regions’ lifeblood.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” It’s a contrast to her high school in Phoenix, where she didn’t have many Black classmates in her International Baccalaureate classes.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. The program relies on local high school guidance counselors to find participants, DeSmidt said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

. — When California schools closed on March 13 in response to the coronavirus, college counselor Brad Ward didn’t know it would be the last day she’d see many of her students at Terra Linda High School. At Menlo, her days revolved around helping students curate their high school careers and lists of colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The father, Paul Carr, is 47, and he’s pushing to finish a college degree he started right after high school but stopped pursuing when he found out his then-girlfriend was pregnant with their first child. And they even chose the same major, political science. That’s the case for one family outside of Detroit.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Related: Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era. The school board spared it after a group of parents, many white and middle class, organized to save the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

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. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

A graduate this year with a master’s degree in business is projected to earn a starting salary of $77,347, compared to $57,657 with a bachelor’s degree, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers ; in engineering, $82,589 versus $69,188; and in computer science, $81,466 compared to $67,539. “In

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

He said, ‘Kenyon is working on it, but there is a predominant brand of young person who attends the school,’” recalled Margolin, now a political science major who loves her school but recognizes it has a lot of work ahead to become more diverse. But some students feel they have not gone far enough. Next stop, college. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

California is one example of a state that has made common-sense tweaks to its residency requirements for undocumented students, as they qualify for in-state tuition rates at public institutions if they have attended a California high school for at least three years, regardless of immigration status. This story about DACA and U.S.

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