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State Affirmative Action Bans in Higher Ed—What We Know

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 admin education, inequality

New from Brookings, “Why might states ban affirmative action?” by Dominique J. Baker, Assistant Professor of Education Policy at Southern

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Study: Program with Tablets and Texts Improves Family Reading Time

August 22, 2018April 16, 2019 admin children, early childhood, education, parenting

“Tablets and texts nudge parents to read to kids” describes a new JHR-published study aimed at finding ways to help

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Which Kids Party Hard?

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 admin children, crime, education, wellness

In “Uncommon Knowledge: Freaks and geeks, and beyond,” the Boston Globe’s Kevin Lewis highlights a JHR paper on how relative

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For-Profit Schools Are Not Improving the Earnings of Their Graduates

February 15, 2018 admin careers, college, education, job training

In “Gainfully employed? New evidence on the earnings, employment, and debt of for-profit certificate students,” Stephanie Riegg Cellini (Brown Center

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Education Next Highlights JHR Dell Scholars Article

January 10, 2018January 23, 2018 admin college, education, poverty

Researchers Stacy S. Kehoe and Lindsay C. Page unpack the implications of their Dell Scholars research in an article for

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Is Murder Insurance a Good Idea?

December 18, 2017December 18, 2017 admin guns, insurance, law, violence

A ForeignPolicy.com article looks at the scrutiny faced by Lloyd’s of London for underwriting NRA insurance products for gun owners

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What Works in the Long Run? Apprenticeships or General Education?

August 9, 2017April 9, 2018 admin careers, education, employment, labor

Inside Higher Ed story “Importing Apprenticeships” cites a JHR paper that investigates the payoffs and tradeoffs of more job focused

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First-Born Children *Are* Smarter

February 10, 2017October 10, 2017 admin birth-order, children, family, parenting

“First-born children have better thinking skills, study says” in The Guardian highlights JHR-published study that finds parenting behavior results in

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