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No Smoke Without Fire?
Image: graur codrin With any mention of the name ‘Frank Gallagher’ in a tabloid newspaper, there is a strong chance that one or more of the descriptions ‘drunken’, ‘feckless’, ‘slob’ or ‘scrounger’...
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When the Boys Fit in Better Than the Girls
Racially integrated schools offer a number of benefits for students: they are able to expand their cultural outlooks, gain new friends, learn about those who are different, and get better educations...
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Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)
In my previous post I discussed the lack of government responsiveness to the middle-class and the poor, when their policy preferences diverge from those of the affluent. This inequality is pervasive: I...
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Can We Make College Cheaper?
Critics of American higher education have a set of theories to explain the ever-rising cost of college tuition. Schools are inefficient. They blow too much money on administrators, not enough on...
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Toxic Pollution and School Performance Scores
Cristina Lucier, Boston College, Anna Rosofsky, Bruce London, both of Clark University, Helen Scharber, Hampshire College, and John M. Shandra, SUNY Stony Brook, published “Toxic Pollution and School...
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Diane Reay on Education and Class
LISTEN TO DIANE REAY NOW! Diane Reay grew up in a council estate in a coal mining part of Derbyshire in England’s East Midlands. Those working-class roots dogged her from the start of her formal...
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Sam Friedman on Class
This illustration is part of a series of Social Science Bites illustrations by scientific illustrator Alex Cagan. We’ve looked through our archives and chosen some of our favorite episodes from over...
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Florence Nightingale at Home (with COVID-19)
‘Florence Nightingale in the Military Hospital at Scutari,’ a lithograph from 1855 by Joseph Austin Benwell showing the pioneering nurse serving the wounded of the Crimean War. (Image: National Army...
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