Greed Is Good Again: Wall Street Bonuses Rebound

Greed Is Good Again: Wall Street Bonuses Rebound

A recent graphic published in The Economist shows that the bonus pool of New York's financial-sector employees increased 15 percent in ...

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Simple Polling Experiment Illustrates Effect of Priming on Public Opinion

Simple Polling Experiment Illustrates Effect of Priming on Public Opinion

The polling organization YouGov designed a simple experiment to illustrate the effect of priming on respondents' attitudes about possib...

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How Stereotypes Impair Women's Careers in Science

How Stereotypes Impair Women's Careers in Science

A new article published in the Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences explores the possible link between negative sex-based ster...

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NEW! Online Data And Analysis Tool On Child Well-Being And Equity In the US

NEW! Online Data And Analysis Tool On Child Well-Being And Equity In the US

The Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy (ICYFP) at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management has launch...

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The Octopus That Almost Ate Seattle--Resources for Teaching News Literacy

In a guest post for the New York Times' The Learning Network , Dean Miller, Director of the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook Univ...

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The Rising Tide That Lifted Only The Biggest Boats

The Rising Tide That Lifted Only The Biggest Boats

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality released a new report on Poverty and Inequality in the US  that documents trends across seven ...

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Socio-economic Background And Performance On The SAT

Socio-economic Background And Performance On The SAT

The College Board describes the SAT  as a tool to "assess academic readiness for college [...] and  provide a path to opportunities, fi...

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Why Do Women Graduate To A Pay Gap?

Why Do Women Graduate To A Pay Gap?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hourly wages of women's are 14 percent lower than men's .  This pay gap, which can ...

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Why Myths Won't Die

Why Myths Won't Die

A new study by political scientist Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth College) and colleagues Jason Reifler (University of Exeter), Sean Richey (Geor...

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Who's Counted?  The Debate Over Deportation Numbers

Who's Counted? The Debate Over Deportation Numbers

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released the 2012 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics , which presents data on foreign ...

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