Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Project Title: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing Genevieve Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genevieve Bates is an Anna Julia Cooper Research Associate and an incoming Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

We recall the numerous persons who have been murdered in the South because of their efforts to secure their civil and human rights, and whose murderers have been allowed to escape penalty for their crimes. We ourselves have often been victims of violence and confinement executed by United States governmental officials.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Lowi First Book Award committee has unanimously selected Professor Termans’s book , The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works — and When It Backfires. The book establishes that human rights shaming is a deeply political process, one that operates in and through strategic relationships.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 20, 2024

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2 By Cecilia McNair ( cmcnair001@csbsju.edu ) and Christi Siver ( csiver@csbsju.edu ) SIVER: While my scholarly interests are primarily at the intersection of international security and human rights [1] , as a professor … The post A Conversation Between Student and Teacher On Learning to Love the Literature (..)

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her research spans human rights and democratization in Latin America and globally. Mneesha Gellman is associate professor of political science in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Jennifer Rich is an associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University and the executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong. Patricia Illingworth is a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. And I think it really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. This innovative approach has been working for well over 10 years.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was the author of three books, most recently The Logics of Gender Justice: State Action on Women’s Rights around the World , co-authored with Laurel Weldon, which won the 2019 International Studies Associations Best Book Award in the Human Rights Section.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2022

After the Supreme Court announced its decision, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued a statement saying that any private, religious school receiving public dollars would be required to adhere to the anti-discrimination provisions found within the state’s Human Rights Act. I think the area of law is in flux.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2016

It combines aspects of high-tech coding and engineering with an emphasis on human-centered design and problem-solving. The post Students share human-centered designs at Emoti-Con technology showcase appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 21, 2019

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

In her book Humanly Possible , Sarah Bakewell writes about being human as culture, morality, science, optimism, and more. Bakewell opens with a musing on the Roman playwright Terence’s line about humans. “I In Bakewell’s way of thinking, this double meaning to both entertain and provoke is so very human.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

Specific calls have been made to #TurnItAround for key issues such as access to health and education; addressing poverty, inequality, hunger and climate change; rethinking the global economy; and putting an end to gender-based violence and violations of human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Education is a human right, and public schools, open to all, are the guardians of this right. There has never been a moment when I couldn’t accept my son for who he is; why can’t private schools do the same — especially those that market themselves to the special needs demographic?

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2023

And human rights groups and regulators have also raised alarms about the vulnerability posed by invasive surveillance tech and school mishandling of data. The researchers also note that many sites — 7.4 percent — also used session recorders, which are known to capture sensitive information like keystrokes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Advisory Council, whose goal is to provide the government with independent advice on AI technology and how it can impact policy, build public trust and foster the development of unbiased AI that keeps human beings at the center of the experience. Such policies have recently been gaining appreciation and, more importantly, traction.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The complaint states that 17,323 black and Latino teens attend a school with no PSAL teams at all. The P.S.A.L. funds teams for about 45,000 student-athletes citywide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Curtin University, Australia (Human Rights). Here is the list of participating universities, with the course topics they plan to offer in the MicroMasters program: Australian National University (Evidence-Based Management). Columbia University (Artificial Intelligence).

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. An example of the benefits is the case of Think Equal , a global education initiative endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Office, teaching social emotional learning to 3-5 year olds.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They are doing so with a slew of anti-trans bills; so many, in fact, that the Human Rights Campaign and many others are calling 2021 the worst year for trans rights in recent history.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Paul Public Schools, speaks with Yusanat Tway (right), a first-generation University of Minnesota student interested in attending law school but worried that work in human rights advocacy will not pay enough to justify the cost. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. It will cost $200K” to get a law degree, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Right now, Nebraska has a pretty typical assessment system. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The class was about human rights, and the teacher, Amanda Marzan, was in her first year of teaching in New York City. By Gilana Steckel. In Room 522C, the second smallest in the school, where twenty-five tenth graders sat knee to knee at small tables, we had the richest discussions.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 11, 2025

The changing meanings and practices of citizenship, including the relationship between citizenship and identity, gender, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, racism and xenophobia, human rights, indigenous peoples, empires and imperialism, civic engagement, transnationality, welfare, and public policy.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Her research focuses on international law, human rights, transnational activism, and the impact of domestic politics on international cooperation. The manuscript is based on her dissertation, which won the American Political Science Association’s award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Together as a class, we also considered the social and societal implications of the crisis. And he’s right. The availability of safe drinking water — a basic human right — is likely to be called into question again and again in communities across the country. Weekly Update.

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