Nick Shay – Professor of Oceanography, University of Miami The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is …
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The pandemic’s gardening boom shows how gardens can cultivate public health
Alessandro Ossola – Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, reports emerged of a global …
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Ivan Martinez – Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, West Virginia University Lisa D. Tinsley – KISA Public Media In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical …
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Supreme Court allows states to use unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections
Henry L. Chambers Jr. – Professor of Law, University of Richmond In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful. You read that …
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Nick Lehr – Arts + Culture Editor To commemorate African-American Music Appreciation Month this June, Vice-President Kamala Harris released a Spotify playlist with songs spanning genres and generations, from TLC’s “Waterfalls” …
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Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history
Peter Dreier – E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed …
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EducationFeaturedRace + Culture
Students of color in special education are less likely to get the help they need – here are three ways teachers can do better
Mildred Boveda – Associate Professor of Special Education, Penn State When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that …
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The ‘hot hand’ is a real basketball phenomenon – but only some players have the ability to go on these basket-making streaks
Konstantinos Pelechrinis – Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh Wayne Winston- Professor of Decision and Information Systems, Indiana University March Madness is here, and basketball fans are …
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Students with disabilities are not getting help to address lost opportunities
John McKenna – Associate Professor of Special Education, UMass Lowell Even before the pandemic hit, 98% of U.S. school districts said they didn’t have enough special education teachers to serve all the …