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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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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?

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

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

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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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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). Arguments that suggest we do away with school algebra frame algebra itself as the problem and leave unexamined how and in what ways that algebra is taught. Economics of Education Review, 58 , 141–161. 2017; Stein et al.,

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Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US

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Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US Published: For centuries, gay people have suffered discrimination, prejudice and persecution. Not only has Michael investigated why it occurred, he also played an important role in achieving marriage equality in the US.

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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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Sustainable Development Goals: Writing Journals

User Generated Education

They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests (Division for Sustainable Development Goals, n.d.). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.1.