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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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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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Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Spring Mi, UC Berkeley

Political Science Now

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and Middle East Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018 with a high academic distinction, and received her Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Chicago in 2021, where she received the Social Sciences Scholarship of full tuition.

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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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APSA Member Spotlight: Dr. Timothy Lewis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Political Science Now

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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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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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.