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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Dan, Social Science Johanna, Manager of School Facilities Ashley, English Tiffany, Math When I first started shooting, I tried to emulate Kathy Ryan’s style but, as happens with most or all creative projects, the portraits eventually took on a look of their own. Often, they contributed their own concepts or ideas for poses.

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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region. There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. The artifacts will be part of a permanent online collection of Covid-19 materials in the college’s special collections department of the library. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

Occupational Versatility : Humanities graduates make up big portions of the legal, museum and library workforces across all states; other significant areas of humanities graduate employment are education, management and sales. Ann Ardis is dean of George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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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. As fun as it is to explore the maps collection of the British Library , it’s even better when we roll up our sleeves and get to work. Let’s take maps, for example.

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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. He was also President of the Policy Studies Organization and a Board Member of the Social Science Council. He returned to the faculty at Wayne State University in 1966, where he remained until 1969.

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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

ED Surge

“There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching." — Kevin Yee Other efforts announced by educators in recent weeks include: New York University’s Center for Responsible AI and the New York Public Library are launching the All Aboard!

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