Positive school climates contribute to academic achievement and can improve outcomes for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a new study published today in Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed ...
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Nov 1, 2016
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As the U.S. experiences sharp increases in drug overdoses, researchers in Delaware are using geo-mapping to look at the state, neighborhood by neighborhood, to identify "hot spots" where the use of prescription fentanyl—an ...
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Aug 23, 2016
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Researchers and businesses have often operated under the idea that work-related cultural values are defined by country - just think of stereotypes about countries that are known to have hard workers or are team-oriented. ...
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May 13, 2016
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In their controversial 2014 book, "The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America," legal scholars Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, attempted to explain why some ...
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Apr 20, 2016
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Talmadge King Jr., MD, dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, tells the story of an ER physician who had lost a document and was searching frantically for it in the garbage bins behind Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital ...
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Jan 7, 2016
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When students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds perceive their universities to be "chilly" towards students from their backgrounds, their academic confidence and sense of themselves as high-achievers suffers, ...
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Dec 14, 2015
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Over the past 25 years, the higher education system in the United States has grown more competitive, with students trying to gain admissions to the most desirable institutions and institutions vying for the most desirable ...
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Nov 16, 2015
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As the nation endured two brutal recessions and the housing bubble crisis in this century's first decade, emerging research indicates that the Northeast and western sections of the nation fared better than the Midwest and ...
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Apr 29, 2015
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A Latino defendant convicted of murder who is poor is more likely to be sentenced to death by white jurors, a new study shows.
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Sep 3, 2014
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A nationally representative comparison of salary, academic achievement and race finds that racial and gender inequality continue to exist regardless of academic success. The study by Ervin (Maliq) Matthew, a University of ...
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Aug 18, 2014
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