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We’ve Been Underestimating Discrimination
March 27, 2024 | Chicago Booth Review | Peter Hull
New methods of measuring racism and sexism find a larger, systemic impact.
“No Fear or Danger of Their Forgetting it:” Revitalizing Wôpanâak from John Eliot’s Bible
March 22, 2024 | The Magazine of the Harvard Crimson | Linford Fisher
Deep in the basement of Harvard’s Indian College, John Eliot worked for 14 years to translate and print the Bible. Completed in 1663, Eliot’s Bible was written in Wôpanâak, the language of local Native American tribes.
Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic
March 14, 2024 | Providence Business News | John Papay
In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest school district and an equal cause “for concern.”
America should thank immigrants for the ‘soft landing’
March 6, 2024 | The Hill | Dany Bahar
With numbers for January showing that inflation stands at 3.1 percent down from 9.1 percent inflation peak in mid-2022, the “soft landing” scenario — reducing the post-COVID era inflation without tipping into a recession—has become the most likely one.
There was an outcry about ‘practice babies’ on TikTok. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
March 1, 2024 | USA Today | Jessica Leinaweaver
No perfect parenting method exists. But a number of decades ago, educators thought differently – so much so that they acquired babies from local orphanages for home economics students to "parent."
Disasters Forced 2.5 Million Americans From Their Homes Last Year
February 27, 2024 | The New York Times | Elizabeth Fussell
Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
Pandemic Journaling Project makes new home at Syracuse University
February 20, 2024 | Syracuse University News | Kate Mason
The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) offers insight into people’s lives and experiences from May 2020 to 2022 in 55 countries through nearly 27,000 online journal entries of text, images, and audio.
Mindfulness training proves effective in reducing hypertension and improving diet
February 13, 2024 | WJAR Providence | Eric Loucks
"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.
Kindergarteners who weren’t in school during pandemic struggle too
February 9, 2024 | EdSource | Emily Oster
Compared to students entering kindergarten before the pandemic, current students started school with weaker math and reading skills and were less likely to start school at grade level, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Wealth Inequality and 'Billionaire Supremacy' Have Gotten so Bad That at this Rate, it will Take 230 Years to End Poverty
February 6, 2024 | Business Insider | Oded Galor
Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of grim predictions about the ever-widening wealth gap.