Moynihan Institute News, Research and Commentary

Schwartz talks to Research Minutes about impact of special education

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, recently co-authored a study on the impact of special education on students with learning disabilities. On this episode of Research Minutes, "Does Special Education Improve Student Outcomes," she discusses her team's findings.
February 26, 2021

See related: Children, Adolescents, Disability, U.S. Education, United States

Khalil discusses impact of the Abraham Accords in Armada International

February 23, 2021

See related: Federal, Middle East & North Africa, National Security, United States

Schwartz discusses her recent special education study with Hechinger Report

"They’re closing the gap with their general education peers by about a sixth," says Professor Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and lead author of the recently published study, "The Effects of Special Education on the Academic Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities." 
February 3, 2021

See related: Disability, U.S. Education, United States

Schwartz study on special education, academic performance published

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Bryant Gregory Hopkins & Leanna Stiefel
January 22, 2021

See related: Education

Ma’s book analyzes Chinese student experiences in U.S. higher ed

Yingyi Ma
December 31, 2020

See related: China

Stuart Brown and Margaret Hermann publish a study on transnational crime

Stuart Brown, Margaret Hermann

This book examines 80 such safe havens which function outside effective state-based government control and are sustained by illicit economic activities.

December 31, 2020

Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics

Natalie Koch
December 31, 2020

Kallander authors book on 17th century Qing Manchu invasion of Korea

George L. Kallander
December 31, 2020

See related: East Asia

Schwartz discusses challenges of post-COVID school mobility in The 74

"The literature says, 'These [mobile] kids do worse,'" says Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs. "But really, on the whole, we’re unable to fully disentangle the effects of moving from the underlying factors that led to it. And from a policy point of view, I’m not sure it matters: You show me a kid who’s moved three times in the last eight months, I’ll show you a kid who needs special attention."

December 16, 2020

See related: Children, Adolescents, COVID-19, State & Local, U.S. Education, United States

Schwartz discusses New York City school bus service in Gotham Gazette

"Although cutting school bus service may seem like an 'easy' way to save money, educators and policymakers should wield the budget knife carefully," write Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, and her co-authors. 

August 26, 2020

See related: Children, Adolescents, New York City, State & Local

Carriere discusses denuclearization in USA Today article

Fred Carriere, research professor of political science, says that one of the major impediments to getting countries to denuclearize, whether the U.S., North Korea or Iran, is that "everybody always wants everything up front, with the promise that good things will follow later on, but few will ever be able to accept this strategy." 

August 12, 2020

See related: Defense & Security, East Asia, Middle East & North Africa, United States

Schwartz, Rothbart study ties free school lunch to higher test scores

Amy Ellen Schwartz & Micah W. Rothbart
May 2, 2020

See related: Education, Nutrition, State & Local

Gueorguiev receives 2020 Moynihan junior faculty award

Dimitar Gueorguiev receives Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research. The Moynihan Award is presented annually in recognition of a non-tenured faculty member of the Maxwell School with an outstanding record of teaching, research, and service.
April 20, 2020

See related: Awards & Honors

Humphrey Fellows workshop, Coronavirus serves as case study

Humphrey Fellows at a recent weeklong seminar discussed the coronavirus in the context of crisis management planning. “Crises are almost the perfect storm for challenges in good governance,” workshop leader and Maxwell School faculty affiliate Bruce W. Dayton said. “During a crisis you are under high stress. Everyone is paying attention. You have very short time to make decisions and you’re confronted with uncertainty. All of those are interconnected.”
March 9, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Student Experience

The Production of Knowledge

Edited by Colin Elman, Syracuse University, New York, John Gerring, University of Texas, Austin, James Mahoney, Northwestern University, Illinois
March 1, 2020

See related: Research Methods

Development, Governance, and Real Property Tax in China

Yilin Hou
December 31, 2019

See related: China

Water Politics: Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water

Farhana Sultana
December 31, 2019

United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century

Osamah F. Khalil
December 31, 2019

See related: East Asia, Middle East & North Africa

The Art and Craft of Comparison

John Boswell, University of Southampton, Jack Corbett, University of Southampton, R. A. W. Rhodes, University of Southampton
October 1, 2019

See related: Research Methods

Champion awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Russia

Craige Champion, professor of history, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Russia. The award will allow Champion to teach at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow for the fall term of 2019, and to conduct research and writing in Moscow and St. Petersburg on his current book project, Citizen and Empire in Democratic Athens and Republican Rome.
May 2, 2019

See related: Grant Awards, Russia

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