Author: Allison Swimmer
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Electric Vehicles: A Solution to Climate Change but a Challenge for Roads
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This August, California legislators proposed an ambitious, sweeping ban prohibiting the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 in an effort to reduce vehicle emissions and fight climate change. California leads the nation in efforts to limit the rapid warming of our planet through both legislation and conscientious consumption. The…
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Political Bad Faith: When Misinformation is the Point
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This article was co-authored by Allison Swimmer, Matilde Tinazzi Martini, Ilina Mitra, and Jose Villalobos Gonzalez. All are first year MPP candidates at University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. From unfounded theories about homeopathic COVID-19 remedies to baseless claims regarding herd immunity, manipulated information is sweeping across the…
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California Mathematics Framework: Working Against Equity?
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Much of the current rhetoric around public schooling is politicized: the debate over mask mandates, the ongoing question of standardized testing, critical race theory. One school subject that has traditionally been regarded as unbiased and objective is mathematics, but that is no longer the case. Recently, the state of California…
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Addressing Mental Health in the Return to School
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With the imminent return to campus, several school systems have eliminated the remote learning option entirely for the 2021-2022 school year in order to maximize in-person learning and reduce last year’s learning loss. However, the rise of the delta variant and inconsistency in state governance has bred confusion across school…