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Virginia educators say that it will be difficult to find enough tutors to implement Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new plan to boost test scores for elementary and middle school students.

Education, Growth, and Religion

September 26, 2023 | Arise News | Oded Galor

Dayo Sobowale argues that religion has a way of interfering with states’ capacity for sustainable growth.

In the past few years, Vermont has earned high rankings for its relatively low climate risk. A 2020 ProPublica report classified four Vermont counties as part of the top 10 across the country that are least likely to suffer from climate change effects like wildfires, extreme heat, and sea level rise.

Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling.

Big Tech and Its Discontents

September 12, 2023 | Psychology Today | Louis Putterman

Does technology still have what it takes to make life better?

The U.S. had more than 9 million open roles in June, and while that’s down from the peak of 12 million in March 2022, it’s still among the highest number of openings we’ve had since before 2000.

Concerns over school closures in Rhode Island are being sped up by a rapid drop in public school students. The state has 17,000 fewer students enrolled in public schools than it did in 1999.

Critics of freeway expansion projects cite the need to combat climate change and air pollution, the legacy of displacing and polluting communities of color, and research that shows that expanding freeways doesn’t alleviate traffic congestion.

The roots of cultural diversity

August 18, 2023 | VoxEU CEPR | Oded Galor

Societal diversity fosters creativity and cultural cross-pollination, but can also hinder social cohension. This column uses data on oral traditions and folkloric motifs across the world to examine the impact of the prehistoric migration of humans out of Africa on cultural diversity.

A digital ‘atlas’ of the refugee imprint in Greece

August 15, 2023 | Kathimerini | Stelios Michalopoulos

Is the trauma of displacement enduring? What is its impact – on the economy, on electoral behavior, on art – even decades later? How is a society affected when it suddenly needs to take in a large number of refugees?

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