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/ 11 months ago70 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, public schools still deeply segregated
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of...
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/ 11 months agoWhy does Claudine Gay still work at Harvard after being forced to resign as its president? She’s got tenure
Barring evidence of moral turpitude or excessive absenteeism, former administrators are very hard to force out.
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/ 11 months agoLiterature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care
While medical school may teach students about how the body works, it often neglects the social, political and cultural factors that...
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/ 11 months agoWhat is resilience? A psychologist explains the main ingredients that help people manage stress
Supportive relationships, economic stability and exercise are among the building blocks that develop resilience.
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/ 11 months agoThe US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter
China has a lot of vacant retail space, including many underused shopping malls. An urban policy scholar describes how the Chinese...
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/ 11 months agoTrump’s Iowa political organizing this year is nothing like his scattershot 2016 campaign
Donald Trump’s Iowa caucus campaign is very nuts-and-bolts. That may be a recognition that celebrity will only take him so far...
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/ 11 months agoWith higher fees and more ads, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu are cashing in by using the old tactics of cable TV
Like their cable predecessors, streaming companies have lured customers in with low rates and promises of a better viewing experience. Now...
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/ 11 months ago‘Designated contrarians’ could improve nonprofit boards by disrupting the kind of consensus and groupthink that contributed to the NRA’s woes
A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the...
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/ 11 months ago2 colonists had similar identities – but one felt compelled to remain loyal, the other to rebel
What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge...
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/ 11 months agoThe chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’ for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains
These tiny songbirds have extraordinary memories for the tens of thousands of spots where they hide food. But that doesn’t help...