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Improper Restraint: Schools Are Overusing Isolated Timeouts
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Society charges schools with the duty to provide all students the opportunity to learn in a safe and positive environment. However, newly released data shows that educators and administrators increasingly and inappropriately utilize seclusion — or “isolated timeouts” — to manage behavior. Isolated timeouts are not proven to effectively resolve…
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Executive Underreach in the Response to COVID-19
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Here we are, over one year later: trapped inside as news of daily deaths keeps breaching the barricade around our isolated lives. How did it come to this? As we mourn COVID-19’s first anniversary, the history of this pandemic continues to be written, and most believe it is a tale…
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No Amount of Training Can Prevent Police Brutality
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Marvin Slaughter contributed to this piece. The killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by officers of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has led to renewed calls for improved police training. But no amount of training can fix the institution of policing; we need an entirely new system and organization to build…
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Universal Cash Transfers in India: The Case for an Inclusive Growth Dividend
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The idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained traction over the past decade. While the idea of a basic income has existed since the American and French Revolutions, it has never been implemented on a country-wide level. Myriad questions remain on its execution: should it replace most or all…
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COVID-19 Halted Medicaid Work Requirements. Should They Come Back?
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In 2018, the Trump administration announced a new policy allowing states to require certain Medicaid enrollees to do a minimum number of “community engagement” hours in order to keep their coverage. These policies, often called work requirements, differ from state to state. They usually dictate that “able-bodied” Medicaid beneficiaries in…
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Housing Discrimination Informs Racial Gaps in Pollution
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A large body of evidence shows that Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionally exposed to harmful pollutants. People of color are more likely to live near hazardous waste landfills, more likely to reside near contaminated waterways, and more likely to breathe air containing pollutants such as ozone. Scholars have named this phenomenon the…
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The Policy Road to Climate Goals
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The global transport sector constitutes a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions — nearly 72% of this derived from road transport. Since many countries remain heavily reliant on fossil fuel-powered vehicles for road transportation despite advances in technology, road transportation must play an outsize role to achieve the Paris Accord goal…
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Yellow Phone Booth
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With promising advances in the COVID-19 vaccination effort and a new administration in the White House, 2021 has felt hopeful for many reasons. For me, an Iranian-American immigrant who has maintained an emotionally split home for the past eighteen years, the new administration’s approach to foreign policy is particularly exciting…
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How AI is Changing Human Communication
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In 2013, the science-fiction drama Her questioned whether communication with artificial intelligence could be indistinguishable from communication with humans. While this day is yet to come, AI is increasingly facilitating human-to-human communication. This phenomenon is AI-Mediated Communication (AI-MC), which Jeffrey T. Hancock, Mor Naaman, and Karen Levy define in their recent paper as…
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The Perks of Parks Through the Lens of Chennai
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Recent social distancing guidelines have undoubtedly deepened local appreciation for public spaces as places of respite from otherwise hectic lives. For many, green public spaces (namely parks) have provided a low-risk avenue to connect with nature, meet others in a distanced capacity, and engage in other welfare-enhancing activities. The structures…
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Bikeshares Are Not an Alternative to Public Transit
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Public bikeshare systems (PBS) have become increasingly popular in cities, prompting studies on their relationship with different forms of transit, including cars, rideshare, walking, and public transit such as buses and rail. Many of these studies have found that PBS reduces the use of all other modes of transit (Bullock,…