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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

Economics 111
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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. With a few notable exceptions, they do not train skills that students need to gain economic independence.

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Don’t Give Up on Algebra: Let’s Shift the Focus to Instruction

National Science Foundation

Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). Domina et al.,

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. Many young people face discrimination and a lack of opportunities, a situation that is all too common in one of Europe’s least equal societies. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty.

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Defined Learning’s Projects for Black History

Defined Learning

Big Idea: People migrate to find economic opportunities and greater freedom. Beginning around 1910, many Blacks moved to Northern, Central, and Western states to find economic opportunity and to escape oppression. Driving Question: How can we tell powerful stories of people who experienced the Great Migration?

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The Importance of Diversity in the STEM field

Talk STEM

Among the many benefits that this shift has provided is the increased accessibility to knowledge and tools for global contributors. There really should be no argument that there should be a more diverse makeup of STEM contributors. But this is resulting in poor access to quality healthcare for women. The Road to Improvement.

STEM 52
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

There was one major exception, however, in 1738, when—as part of his eclectic mathematical career spanning probability theory, elasticity theory, biostatistics, economics and more— Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) published his book on hydrodynamics.

Energy 88