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

National Science Foundation

Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). This has led to recent calls to replace the emphasis on algebra in schools with courses that center on quantitative literacy, data fluency, or statistical investigation (e.g., Economics of Education Review, 58 , 141–161.

Algebra 76