Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2024

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will welcome eight scholars as 2024 fellows this fall. It is a privilege to welcome another highly accomplished cohort of social scientists as fellows of the AAPSS, and it is especially gratifying to award inaugural fellowships in memory of Academy Fellows James S.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Her online hybridized problem-based learning project called the virtual mystery web-tool has recently been awarded funding to expand to other anthropological sub-disciplines and across disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The post Sherry Fukuzawa first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Her online hybridized problem-based learning project called the virtual mystery web-tool has recently been awarded funding to expand to other anthropological sub-disciplines and across disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The post Sherry Fukuzawa first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. There, too often, struggling students attempt to discredit the educator and the field of social science. Usually, when a student in a classroom is not understanding the material, they ask for help.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Politics , Journal of Public Policy , Political Research Quarterly , Legislative Studies Quarterly , Public Choice , and Social Science Quarterly.

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Government Political Science Social Science Economics 55

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ann Ardis is dean of George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Though their question burdened me at the time with self-doubt, among other things, they asked it out of a caring sense of concern for my future.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. The researchers detected grading bias against the end of the alphabet in a wide range of subjects.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Sidenote: If you are wondering what the target Lexile range is for your students, check out the chart below, which is provided in Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Science, Science and Technical Studies. For more on “text complexity,” click here.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a survey, humanities, arts and social science professors say they really want their students to be able to analyze data, create charts and spreadsheets and reason mathematically – skills that high school math courses often skip or rush through. Majors that require calculus were excluded.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“In the best case scenario, a student would be exposed to media literacy practices and concepts throughout the day, in math classes and science classes, not just in English and social sciences.”. Spikes, director of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Northwestern University and co-founder of the Illinois Media Literacy Coalition.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A draft paper about the experiment was posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network, in July 2024. The tutoring version of ChatGPT was directly fed the correct solutions and these errors were minimized. The paper has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal and could still be revised.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

“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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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research has also been published by Brookings Institution Press, and in Political Research Quarterly , State Politics and Policy Quarterly , Public Opinion Quarterly , Social Science Quarterly , American Politics Research , the Journal of Policy History , and the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

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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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

A moral circle is a concept in philosophy and the social sciences that represents the groups of people and entities one considers worthy of moral concern. Opposite moral universes At issue is a set of heatmaps from a scientific article exploring the moral circles of liberals and conservatives.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In fact, admissions officers say students who wish to gain admission to competitive universities often feel compelled to take the course, even if they intend to major in social science or humanities. After all, this is what most colleges do: Students interested in science and engineering take the traditional algebra-to-calculus path.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada My first-year anthropology students are often surprised to learn they will be studying biology as part of their introduction to anthropology.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the end, Kelly of Harvard says, the dream is to have similar courses that integrate calculus concepts in life sciences, economics, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering taught at colleges and high schools. Kelly has taught a similar modeling course for economics and social sciences for the last few years.)

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ED Surge

MAY 26, 2022

Business, health and social sciences are the top three programs, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Major Question Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard | Data visualization by Veronica Duenas What kind of degrees are students graduating with?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

in Social Science Education and History and is a member of Educators for Excellence. Devin Evans is a 12th-grade literature and history teacher at Butler College Prep Charter High School on Chicago’s far South Side. He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

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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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

He has held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research & Exchanges Board, and the Social Science Research Council. His research explores the design and the implementation of transitional justice with a focus on conflict resolution mechanisms. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Specialist.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students for a 90-minute virtual workshop introducing best practices and strategies for incorporating these social science research platforms into your scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

Amy Bass is Professor of Sport Studies and Chair of the Division of Social Science and Communication at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. This story about communities and the coronavirus was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. And thus our course, The Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) , was born.

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

The University of Michigan, in partnership with Coursera, is running a free online “ teach-out ” for educators and others who want to understand how AI chatbots work and what impact they might have on society, led by professors across disciplines including social sciences, medicine, computer science and others.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Lead researcher Trine Filges, an economist at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, sees the oft-cited Tennessee experiment not as indicative of what class size reduction can achieve but as one “very old study,” now dating back more than 30 years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement. “Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Class discussions about climate change news can help students see connections between their news practices and their academic work, while showing that familiarity with news is a social practice and a form of civic engagement. There is still much work to be done to help students translate climate anxiety into shared action.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. But she threw out 99 percent of them, many of which were quite favorable to inclusion.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Using agency-generated records on lobbying activity, financial reporting, and personnel databases specific to lawyers, as well as LinkedIn, we describe a vast subterranean world of regulatory influence-seeking that the social-science literature has (mostly) ignored.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Yet, the social science with perhaps the most to offer budding journalists, anthropology, has often been excluded from the chosen courses.” “The

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