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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I’ve never been told, ‘You got this. Good job, I’m proud of you.’ That’s something I got from him all the time.”

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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“These humanities fields are down to unprecedented levels,” said Rob Townsend, director of humanities, arts and culture programs at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pure sciences like physics and chemistry are included in the liberal arts and sciences but not the humanities. It’s worrisome.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Jennifer Rich is an associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rowan University and the executive director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights. Michael Haley Goldman is the director of Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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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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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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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Students may be coming with an assignment from an engineering class or a social sciences class, she says, which means writing center staff can build connections with colleagues across the college.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The most important thing for me is to do social science that can be replicated by other people,” Schneider says, adding she hopes more HBCUs will join the project. Once implemented, researchers will also collect data and study the curriculum’s impact using the same methods as in previous studies.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrated Actions Civics Project: developed between The UC Berkeley History Social Science Project and the Santa Clara and San Mateo county offices of education, this project offers tested strategies to support the integration of civic engagement into classrooms.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Two theories proposed by notable twentieth-century scholars stand out—one by James Samuel Coleman, an American sociologist who worked at the University of Chicago, and the other by French structuralist Pierre Bourdieu, who taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Students studying the topic need technical knowledge but also an understanding of ethics, history and social science, says Sarma. “One of the challenges we have,” he said, “is that we’re so focused on work — which we obviously need to take seriously — that we will lose focus on the things that make education education.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We want the students to stay in their major of choice,” he said, whether in the sciences, social sciences or otherwise. Rodriguez, the Riverside vice provost, said this type of supplemental instruction can make a big difference. “We

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, “ A Kindergarten Lottery Evaluation of Core Knowledge Charter Schools: Should Building General Knowledge Have a Central Role in Educational and Social Science Research and Policy? ” Department of Education), the National Science Foundation and two private foundations. Content is hard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

in social science education and history, and he is a member of Educators for Excellence. Devin Evans is a 10th-grade English Language Arts teacher at Butler College Prep on Chicago’s far South Side. He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A.

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