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How Same-Race Teaching Could Change Our Education System
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Deciphering the causal effects, or “treatment effects”, of different educational designs on student outcomes is an increasingly difficult task in the United States. Understanding these effects is vitally important in order to provide students with the best opportunity for positive educational outcomes. This difficulty in parsing out design outcomes is…
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Juneteenth & Transitional Justice: A National Reckoning
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David Alan Johnson is a second-year MPP student and Pearson Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and Research Assistant at the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at the University of Chicago. As the United States celebrates Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating enslaved African-Americans learning of their freedom from…
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Inaugural University of Chicago Juneteenth Commemoration
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The inaugural UC Juneteenth 2021 initiative comes in the wake of a global pandemic that exposed widespread health inequities in marginalized communities, political tumult, demand for an end to police brutality, and an overall resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It is thus fitting that this political celebration of…
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Why Black Americans Don’t Trust the COVID-19 Vaccine, and How We Can Do Better
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Sarthak Aggarwal is an MS1 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He can be reached at [email protected]. The COVID-19 pandemic remains at the forefront of public life, claiming the lives of countless Americans and leaving many more worried, scared, and isolated. Recently, promising news about the Moderna,…
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Harm Reduction, Healthcare, and the Opioid Overdose Crisis in Chicago
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Alex Rains is an MS1 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at [email protected] Overdose deaths have been a serious public health concern in the United States for many years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only highlighted the severity of this crisis. By disrupting…
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Drug Cartels, Politics, and Violence in Mexico
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The strategic decision by Mexican drug cartels to assassinate local government officials and politicians in the past 15 years has been surprising, to say the least. Since the 1990s cartels understood that their success depended on remaining out of the spotlight, a position from which they could co-opt government authorities…
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Harris Community Action Study Suggests Ciclovía Could Bring Economic, Health, Social Benefits to Chicago
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Siobhan McDonough, Noah Berman, and Eliana Fram contributed to this piece. A Harris Community Action team, in coordination with the Chicago non-profit Equiticity, found evidence that implementing an open streets program similar to Bogota’s ciclovía could effectively encourage social integration, build healthy habits, and boost local businesses. Harris Community Action…
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Restricting Immigration Leads US Employers to Move Jobs Elsewhere
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Immigration is a perennial source of debate in the United States. Debates tend to focus on low-skilled immigrants – their legal status, employability, country of origin, and even potential threat to national security. In recent years, however, high-skilled legal immigration has increasingly come under scrutiny. Anti-immigration sentiment can stem from…
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Insights on Biden Administration’s Climate Policy: Interview with Professor Amir Jina
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Amir Jina is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, UChicago. His research focuses on the role of the environment and environmental change in shaping of how societies develop. He has conducted fieldwork related to climate change adaptation with communities in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Uganda. Professor…
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The UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” is a Misnomer
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How do countries pursue socioeconomic development in a sustainable and equitable way? This question has received considerable attention, more so with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing about discussion of a green (economic) recovery. The United Nations formulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 to provide a framework for global development, ranging…
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Remote Learning and the Widening K-12 Achievement Gap
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As we pass the anniversary of the first round of lockdowns, Americans are longing for a return to normalcy. With COVID-19 numbers decreasing due to increased testing and vaccine distribution, schools nationwide have begun the process of returning teachers and students to the classroom. Many schools have returned to a hybrid model of teaching,…