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Time for School

When it comes to time in school, both quantity and quality matter. Looking across 74 studies with causal research designs, we see a compelling body of evidence that increasing total school time leads to gains in academic achievement, on average.
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Professors Jessaca Leinaweaver and Susan Short visited the United Nations on October 29th—the UN's International Day of Care and Support—where Dr. Short participated in a panel launching the Global Report on Children’s Care and Protection, led by SOS Children’s Villages.
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Press Release - Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Fred Hutch launches Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists

Omar Galárraga has been selected for a new online Atlas that recognizes contributions of Hispanic and Latinx scientists and serves as a space to build community and create mentorship opportunities.
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“Rhode Island was the first state in the US to legalize OPCs, so we have taken a different pathway than NY by going through the legislative process,” Alexandra Collins, PhD, a medical social scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at Brown University in Providence, told Filter.
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America’s infatuation with incarceration isn’t just an artifact of its racist past. It is frequently nourished by the support of both Democrats and Republicans, and it is often welcomed by rural communities of color needing help.
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The Wall Street Journal

Why Americans Aren’t Having Babies

The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all.
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No Jargon, a podcast by the Scholars Strategy Network

Disaster Management in the Era of Climate Change

The first major storm of the 2024 season, Hurricane Beryl, made history by breaking multiple records and causing widespread devastation along its path. In this episode of No Jargon, Elizabeth Fussell shares insights on how extreme weather events impact communities and what we can learn from this storm, and others like it, to improve our responses as climate change makes these disasters more common and powerful.
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Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the American workforce. Their share of the workforce has grown steadily over the last 15 years and more rapidly since 2020 as immigrants have returned to work more quickly post COVID-19 than their U.S.-born colleagues.
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This school year, Montana, a state with fewer than 8,000 teachers, had 1,000 unfilled teaching positions. Meanwhile, Dutton-Brady Public Schools, a rural district about an hour from the Canadian border, easily filled its three vacancies. Photo credit: Rebecca Stumpf/High Country News
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NPR Marketplace Morning Report

How Israel’s Economy is Faring Eight Months into War with Hamas

“Marketplace Morning Report” spent some time looking at the economic reality behind the war between Israel and Hamas. First, they looked at the economies of Gaza and the West Bank before and during the current conflict. Now they turn to how the conflict has shaped the Israeli economy.
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The Metro on WDET.org

Peter Hull discusses I.G.N.I.T.E.’s mission

I.G.N.I.T.E., a program at Genessee County Jail, is lowering the number of people re-entering the system. Peter Hull, professor of economics at Brown University and the author of a study on the jail’s program, joined the show to discuss I.G.N.I.T.E.’s mission.
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In 2023, over 108 million people have been forced to flee worldwide, and 41% of these are children under the age of 18. This creates disparities in human development between migrant children and adolescents and those of the host country, which can, however, be mitigated by access to services and regularization programs.
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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.
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Providence Business News

Annenberg: Providence teacher resignations problematic

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.”
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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.
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Syracuse University News

Pandemic Journaling Project makes new home at Syracuse University

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.
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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.
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Thomas B. Fordham Institute

The Best and Worst of Ed Reform in 2023

John Papay's and colleagues' research on "Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes" was chosen as the most important education study of 2023 by Amber Northern, Vice President of Research for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, during the Research in Review segment of the Institute's last podcast of the year.
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To help students regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, schools have often rearranged their class schedules to eke out more time for instruction in individual subjects. But new research suggests adding extra time to the school calendar—rather than rescheduling classes—is what really adds up for students over time.
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