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Boston Magazine
How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long?
PSTC sociologist John Logan describes the history of both informal and legally binding racial segregation between neighborhoods.
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PSTC sociologist Patrick Heller argues that India should invest in social safety nets to protect citizens from future crises.
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PSTC biostatistician Joseph Hogan is one author of the editorial that Reuters is summarizing
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The Washington Post
Schools are not spreading COVID-19. This new data makes the case.
PSTC economist Emily Oster discusses whether schools are sites of significant COVID-19 transmission.
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PSTC Epidemiologist Meghan Ranney comments on the continued hardship that healthcare workers face.
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The Providence Journal
RI health experts cautiously optimistic about Pfizer vaccine news
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data is “potentially groundbreaking,” according to PSTC epidemiologist Mark Lurie, although he emphasized that we have not yet observed any long-term effects.
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PSTC historian Linford Fisher sheds light on the colonial context of Providence Plantations, a title that Rhode Islanders voted to remove from the state's full name.
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City Journal
Race, Trump, and BLM
PSTC economist Glenn Loury argues that current narratives of race and white supremacy "remove agency" from Black Americans by blaming societal factors and ignoring patterns of behavior within the Black community.
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The New York Times
What Makes a Man Manly? Trump and Biden Offer Competing Answers
Both Biden and Trump's platform embody different "tropes" of masculinity to pull in voters, according to PSTC anthropologist Matthew Gutmann.
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PSTC Epidemiologist Megan Ranney comments on the disaster that looms from COVID-19 spreading during Thanksgiving.
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PSTC Economist Glenn Loury believes the term "white supremacy" spins a false narrative about a failing America.
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The pace of economic recovery during the pandemic is stalling, according to PSTC Economist John Friedman.
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On the podcast Planet Money, PSTC economist Emily Oster discusses her journey to create a COVID-19 School Response Dashboard to provide parents and schools with infection data.
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PSTC Professor of Education Matthew Kraft advocates for a plan to recruit and train thousands of tutors across America.
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The Guardian
Can we trust Chinese Covid-19 science?
Since the SARS epidemic, China has transformed their public health system and become a leader in the COVID-19 response, according to PSTC Anthropologist Kate Mason.
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In a podcast interview, faculty associate Emily Oster shares data from her online platform that tracks coronavirus cases in schools around the country.
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The New York Times
The Coronavirus Mostly Spares Younger Children. Teens Aren’t So Lucky.
Faculty associate Megan Ranney says that data surrounding COVID-19 testing on children may only be "catching" symptomatic cases.
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Faculty Associate Megan Ranney stresses the importance of masks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and argues that these officials are sending the American public the wrong message by failing to follow health precautions.
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Faculty associate Megan Ranney comments on the proliferation of ineffective masks in hospitals due to a national N95 mask shortage.
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Faculty affiliate John Friedman comments on inequalities in the recovery to an economic crisis like that of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From sending kids back to school to flying on an airplane, faculty affiliate Emily Oster explore how everyone make better choices amid the pandemic.
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Washington Monthly Magazine
Repeal-Proofing the Biden Administration
Faculty affiliate Andrew Schrank argues that if Joe Biden is elected president, he should give workers tangible benefits early on in his term to safeguard his policies from future repeals.
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As one of the first to publish research on the newly unsealed archives of Pope Pius XII, faculty associate David Kertzer explores whether the former Pope displayed indifference to Jewish suffering during the holocaust.
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Faculty associate Emily Oster discusses how relying on data can help parents—including herself—make informed decisions during the pandemic.
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Education Week Teacher
Teachers Felt Less Successful During the Spring School Closures, Survey Finds
Faculty associate Matthew Kraft comments on the importance of teachers' own perceptions of their self-efficacy.
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The Boston Globe
A tragic milestone, an uncertain future
In an op-ed for the Boston Globe, faculty associate Megan Ranney reflects upon Rhode Island's coronavirus response and the tragic milestone of 1000 R.I. deaths from COVID-19.
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The Providence Journal
R.I. faces uncertain COVID-19 prognosis for fall
PSTC faculty associates Mark Lurie and Megan Ranney caution that Rhode Islanders must continue to practice protective measures against COVID-19 if the state expects its relative success against the virus to continue in the coming months.
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The New York Times
Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What
Faculty associate Mark Lurie comments on the potential for COVID-19 transmission at recent protests in the US.
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The Atlantic
Parents Can't Wait Around Forever
Faculty associate Emily Oster discusses the need for better data on kids, schools, and COVID-19.
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The New York Times
What is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality
Faculty associate John Logan's work on residential income segregation is cited.
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The New York Times
The Rich Cut Their Spending. That Has Hurt All the Workers Who Count on It.
Faculty associate John Friedman comments on consumer spending during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Faculty Associate John Papay comments on disparities in college completion and earnings among students of different backgrounds with similar MCAS scores.
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Faculty associate John Friedman comments on the potential long-term economic effects of the pandemic.
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The New York Times
When Couples Fight about Virus Risks
Faculty associate Emily Oster comments on how parents should assess risks associated with Covid-19.
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Cultural Anthropology: Fieldsights
Missing the Revolution with Covid-19: On Hindsight and Ethnographic Expertise
Faculty associate Kate Mason comments on her early assumptions about Covid-19.
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Faculty associate John Friedman comments on unemployment during the COVID pandemic.
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Faculty associate Michael White comments on the potential for population shifts in New York City due to the coronavirus.
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PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie comments on the epidemic curve.
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PSTC faculty associate and Professor of Economics David Weil discusses the economic impacts of the pandemic.
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PSTC faculty associate Andrea Flores discusses the sacrifices older siblings make for younger siblings' education.
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The New York Times
Peaks, Testing, Lockdowns: How Coronavirus Vocabulary Causes Confusion
Faculty associate Mark Lurie comments on how COVID-19 cases are reported.
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Plan A Magazine
COVID-19 and Imaginaries of China
PSTC Postdoctoral Fellow Grazia Deng, an anthropologist, discusses anti-Chinese sentiment in the age of coronavirus.
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Hechinger Report
Labeling kids with mild disabilities can backfire, study finds
Research on childhood ADHD diagnoses by PSTC faculty associate Jayanti Owens is highlighted.
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From the Newsroom: The Providence Journal
Mark Lurie, Brown University epidemiologist,discusses COVID-19
PSTC faculty associate Mark Lurie discusses the coronavirus epidemic in a podcast with the Providence Journal.
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The New York Times
A Simple Way to Equalize the Ivies? Give Others the Legacy SAT Bonus
PSTC faculty associate John Friedman discusses how to make college admissions more equitable.
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PSTC faculty associate Kate Mason comments on the potential consequences of overreacting to the coronavirus outbreak.
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PSTC faculty associate Kate Mason comments on the potential for a new global pandemic.
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PSTC Faculty Associate Matthew Gutmann debunks the myth that biological determinism drives and explains human male violence.
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The Nation
What Never-Ending War Does to Kids
PSTC Alum Andrea Mazzarino considers the effects of war on children's education.
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Vermont Public Radio
Why Do We Have to Go to School?
PSTC Associate Emily Rauscher answers children's questions about school.
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