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Disadvantaged male students deserve top priority
Gov. Jerry Brown presented a 12-point education plan during his campaign. He wisely crafted a proposal that encompassed multiple elements of public education, among them the cost of higher education and changes in the state testing program. Although each component of that platform could spur positive change, Brown’s interest in raising high-school graduation rates is […]
Vox
How to make sense of the very weird job market
“There’s a dichotomy in the job market between the high-growth, high-risk tech jobs … versus most of the employment in the economy is these other firms and small businesses and nonprofits,” said Sean R. Gallagher, executive director at Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy.
Power Up: DOJ settled for billions to allay the opioid crisis. The challenge now: Getting the money.
Leo Beletsky, a professor and faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University School of Law, argues that a PBC could address “structural issues in the pharmaceutical market” by addressing the high cost of addiction and overdose medications like Naloxone, the overdose antidote, and buprenorphine and methadone — both used to treat […]
California closes Orange county beaches over Covid-19 fears – but how risky is a beach day?
Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University health policy expert, said governments need to consider “harm reduction” when weighing the costs of reopening: “We are never going to get social interactions to zero, so how do we reduce the ones that are high risk?” California needs to avoid the complete “renormalization of social interaction”, but the state […]
Voc-tech tension
The high demand for seats has created what a 2016 report from Northeastern University called a “peculiar paradox” in Massachusetts vocational education. “Some still think that these schools are reserved for students who cannot succeed in the state’s comprehensive high schools,” said the report. But vocational schools are, in fact, now in such demand, it […]
Voc-tech schools are a Mass. success story
More than two-thirds of voc-tech graduates go on to post-secondary education. For those who choose not to, a survey of business owners and others conducted by Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center found that voc-tech graduates are more job ready than other high school graduates. What’s more, a number of respondents said they were more job ready […]
Advocates: Mass. unlawfully isolates mentally ill inmates
Across the country, there is a strong movement to limit the use of segregation in prisons, especially for juveniles and people with mental illness, said Natasha A. Frost, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University who coauthored a recent paper on segregation for the National Institute of Justice. Change is driven […]
Highly novel research proposals ‘being systematically rejected’
Highly novel ideas received worse ratings than those with only moderate novelty, the study found, although those with little novelty also scored poorly. Christoph Riedl, a co-author and assistant professor for information systems at Northeastern University, explained to Times Higher Education that “humans just have cognitive limits in what they are able to understand”. “Evaluators […]
Should discount carrier Norwegian Air fly to the U.S.? Here’s what passengers think.
Northeastern University economist Harlan Platt says the debate reminds him of taxis fighting the inevitable spread of Uber. But the new, better way of running an airline — Norwegian Air is finding ways to reduce costs by breaking the old model of basing an airline in one country, employing people there and hiring its crew […]
The 13 worst things to do with your tax refund
Using a tax refund check to pay off debt is the most popular way to spend a tax refund, as 27% of respondents plan to do so, according to the GOBankingRates survey. “The goal in spending a tax refund should be long-term financial security,” said Tim Gagnon, a professor of accounting at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim […]
KPCC
Five tips for coping with college stress
This time of year is especially high pressure with essay deadlines and exam prep, so burnout expert Kristen Lee Costa, Ed.D. conducted qualitative research to find the best coping mechanisms for the students she studied. Without them, students’ work can suffer. In her research, Costa found five key lessons to keep in mind when dealing […]
One size does not fit all: Educational pathways outside of the four-year degree
Elevating the educational attainment of the population—often referred to as “college for all”—has become one of the dominant policy goals of our time. However, dynamics are changing as the trends of soaring college costs and flattening enrollment rates have collided with the talent demands of a robust global job market, which today features unemployment rates […]