Nationally, only about 50% of students pass college algebra, with even fewer students who are Black, Latinx, and Native. Serving as a gatekeeper course for students seeking a degree in STEM, algebra can serve as a barrier ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2022
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When Zimife Umeh, a new assistant professor of sociology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), first embarked on researching the experiences of incarcerated mothers, she worried ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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A specialist in plastic waste management, artists, musicians, computer scientists, and a poet-ornithologist who advocates for Black people in nature are among this year's 25 winners of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur ...
Other
Oct 12, 2022
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More than 70 years ago, a pair of psychologists conducted a study in which they asked young Black girls to choose between Black and white dolls. The girls overwhelmingly chose white dolls, ascribing positive attributes to ...
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2022
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A new paper in PNAS Nexus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that minority students who earn low grades in introductory science, technology, engineering, and math classes are less likely to earn degrees in these ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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A new study provides the best evidence to date that preferences of white consumers helped drive private businesses to discriminate against Black customers before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2022
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Racially resentful white Americans are less likely to support some gun rights if they believe Black people are exercising those rights more than white people, according to research published by the American Psychological ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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Temperatures in the U.K. recently breached 40°C for the first time in recorded history. The country is set to experience more frequent and more extreme heat waves as carbon emissions continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.
Environment
Jul 27, 2022
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Analogous to Santa Klaus in the West, every December, the saint Sinterklaas brings gifts to the good children in the Netherlands. However, the latter is not assisted by a Christmas elf, but by what appears as a 'devilish' ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2022
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Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation's oldest Black churches on Monday, commencing a monthslong effort to learn who was buried there and how they lived.
Archaeology
Jul 19, 2022
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