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

The Hechinger Report

Related: OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders “What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” Ann Ardis is dean of George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. It emphasized “social justice” and suggested that students could take data science instead of advanced algebra in high school. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics.

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

ED Surge

Sharing VR Resources At the University of Maryland, Ray runs the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, which uses virtual reality simulations to train police officers how to handle tough situations. “You have to build a pipeline, a labor force, that has the skill set to be able to do this,” Ray says.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

“Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.” Now these kinds of disciplines are in for even greater scrutiny.

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2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Society for Classical Studies

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Fellows join an engaged alumni community of PhDs working across a variety of sectors.

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Meet 2024 RBSI Scholar, Karis Rivers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Political Science Now

Karis Rivers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Karis Rivers is a rising senior at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor majoring in political science and minoring in quantitative methods in social sciences. Throughout her academic career, she has maintained status as a James B.

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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. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. We could use Minecraft to design our own self-sustainable towns.