Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

Corwin Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. Lucien completed his JD and PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University, where he was both a Law and Science Fellow and a Franke Fellow.

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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. “I He said staff members had set up food drives in school parking lots as the pandemic hit. “We

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A political science and philosophy double major at Arizona State University, Thrailkill learned about the American political system in large lecture halls. But small seminars on ethics and political philosophy stimulated her imagination and taught her to think critically. Lindblom asked Thrailkill to take on the class.

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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. Washington High School and throughout Atlanta Public Schools who would thrive at UGA, if extended the opportunity,” said Clark, who has been a public school educator for 28 years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

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. Related: School Counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We Both are modeled closely on Columbia’s program.

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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 26, 2019

Morales ended up enrolling at the University of Puerto Rico, where she finished in December with a degree in political science. As a graduate of a high school in Puerto Rico, she was beating the odds even to accomplish that. “The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a district that’s been out of the business of directly managing schools for five years, it is a tentative step toward a new era in the city where permanent, traditional neighborhood schools are more commonplace. NOLA Public Schools, the district’s official name, has about 41,600 students, 75 percent of whom are Black.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I’m always here,” said Echanique, whose 10th-grade daughter and fifth-grade son attend the local public schools. I was telling my daughter, even if you’ve graduated high school, I will still always come and volunteer, because I love being a mom and I love being involved in the community.” That ain’t Texas,” said Rev.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

“They have a lot of insight and experience in how to navigate some of the challenges that go along with large public institutions and the processes that make government happen.” is a high school alternative education and social studies teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. Chad King Wilson Sr.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But his academic science background is unclear: He declined a request from The Hechinger Report to answer questions about his science training and how he discusses pandemic-related public health measures in class. His Amazon author page lists him as an attorney who majored in political science and English in college.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. I had already begun teaching the book in an introductory political science course and I was anxious to talk with him about it. by Michael A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

But at a packed meeting that December, Houston’s board narrowly voted down a proposal to have the district seek bids from outside entities to run the four schools under the 2017 law. Citizens who spoke almost uniformly opposed the proposal, with many arguing it was the first step in an effort to privatize district public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

Related: As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return? Perhaps nowhere has the shift back to normal been more jarring than in Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland. In some cases, school leaders have lost their jobs. Be the same Daniel Tiger that your teachers are accustomed to,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

“It’s very bizarre, the relationship parents and families have with schools — it’s almost as if we’re not full-grown adults that can understand or comprehend,” said Rodrigues, who has three sons in public school and two who switched to in-person Catholic schools during the pandemic after struggling during school closures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He said that he never received instruction about sex ed, dating or relationships at his private high school in northern New Jersey. A political science and criminal justice major, he decided to play an active role in sexual violence prevention after taking a class on sex crimes at Temple.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

federal system can claim both right and duty to govern public schools. Meanwhile, under-resourced state governments have scrambled to meet constitutional duties to enact a “basic,” “uniform” and “adequate” system of public education. For the future of public education in this country, that must change. Paul, Minnesota.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Alexis Jordan, a single mom of four who lives outside of Puyallup, Washington, is working on a bachelors degree in social work and political science while keeping part-time hours as a housekeeper. Parents may also hesitate to change their living situation out of fear any alteration will disqualify them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Now the fight is less about how public schools can achieve excellence, and more about how they can survive. “In Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Over the last decade and a half, the union — which represents the city’s public school teachers, nurses, counselors and support staff — has been nearly halved, its ranks shrinking from 21,000 to 11,000. In Ohio, another key state, three in 10 public school students now attend charters in Dayton and in Cleveland.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

Although empirical evidence about the effects of phone access on learning seems to be scarce, the findings of a recent study on student phone access and the achievement gap by Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy for the London School of Economics and Political Science echoed our concerns. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

“The state government of Oklahoma, in its wisdom, has decided that oil and gas companies should have a whole lot of money and schools should have hardly any money,” Anderson said. That’s a social decision that values oil and gas extraction over the public good of public schools.”.

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Diane Ravitch

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I, too, did some student teaching in college, but I was always clear my degree was in political science and international relations.) They called her unqualified and wrote that she spent years pushing policies that would defund and destroy public schools. Start at the top.

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