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The Situation of Standardized Test Scores
Posted on April 4, 2008
A press release from Science Daily describes a study indicating (perhaps unsurprisingly) that family wealth may play a significant role in explaining standardized test scores of children. * * * A new study published in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development finds that family wealth might partly explain differences in test scores […]
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The Situation of Privilege
Posted on September 24, 2012
From NortonSOC: Shamus Khan (Columbia University) discusses his C. Wright Mills award-winning book, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School, and how elite schools “convert birthright into credentials” for privileged students. Here is a summary of the book: As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul’s […]
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Poverty and Delinquency
Posted on October 15, 2011
Tamar Birckhead recently posted her article, “Delinquent by Reason of Poverty” (forthcoming Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 38, 2012) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * This Article, written for the 12th Annual Access to Equal Justice Colloquium, explores the disproportionate representation of low-income children in the United States juvenile justice system. It […]
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David Brooks, the Situationist
Posted on July 9, 2011
From New York Times: Over the past 50 years, we’ve seen a number of gigantic policies produce disappointing results — policies to reduce poverty, homelessness, dropout rates, single-parenting and drug addiction. Many of these policies failed because they were based on an overly simplistic view of human nature. They assumed that people responded in straightforward […]
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A Discussion about (In)Equality
Posted on July 2, 2010
The following (51 minute) video contains a worthwhile discussion from Agenda about how much inequality is too much. * * * Participants Include: Richard Wilkinson is co-author of The Spirit Level and Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and honorary professor at University College London. He has played a formative role in […]
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The Situational Effects of (In)Equality
Posted on June 29, 2010
Here is an intriguing (40-minute) interview with Richard Wilkinson co-author of the book The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger and co-founder of The Equality Trust. * * * * * * For a sample of related Stiuationist posts, see “The Situational Consequences of Poverty on Brains,” For a sample of related Situationist posts, […]
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The Situational Consequences of Poverty on Brains
Posted on June 9, 2010
Anne McIlroy wrote a piece for the Toronto Globe and Mail describing research by Dr. James Swain, who is using brain imaging techniques to study the effects of poverty on the brain. Here are some excerpts. * * * Over the past four decades, researchers have established how poverty shapes lives, that low socioeconomic status […]
Posted in Distribution, Education, Environment, Neuroscience | 1 Comment »
Situationism in the Blogosphere – May, Part I
Posted on June 8, 2010
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quotation from some of our favorite non-Situationist situationist blogging during May 2010 (they are listed in alphabetical order by source). * * * From Big Think: “To Improve Girls’ Science Scores, Show Them Women Scientists” “Standardized tests are supposed to measure innate abilities. The subject of your last […]
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Examining the Gendered Situation of Harvard Business School
Posted on May 5, 2010
Julia Brau, Paayal Desai, Alexandra Germain, Akmaral Omarova, Jung Paik, and Julie Sandler are all students at Harvard Business School (HBS) who last week published a thoughtful article in their student newspaper The Harbus. With potential lessons and relevance for many institutions, the piece discusses recent efforts to understand and address sources of gender discrepancies […]
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Consuming Merit, Gatekeeping, and Reproducing Wealth
Posted on August 10, 2009
The op-ed excerpted below, “America’s Best Colleges: Merit by the Numbers,” by Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier and Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm, appeared in the August 5, 2009, edition of Forbes. It eloquently examines the role played and not played by universities in educating young people to promote the system-justifying illusion of merit. […]
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Firefighters and the Situation of “Merit”
Posted on July 16, 2009
The following excerpted op-ed, “Trial by Firefighters,” co-written by Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier and Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm, was published in the July 11, 2009, edition of The New York Times. They are also the co-authors of “Who’s Qualified: A New Democracy Forum on the Future of Affirmative Action” (Beacon Press, 2001). * […]
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Situationally Idle: Is Summer Vacation too Long for Kids?
Posted on June 16, 2009
A pediatrician blogging on Daily Kos challenges the merits of 12-week-long summer vacation for kids. We excerpt his piece below. * * * For some kids, summer vacation will mean a dizzying array of chores and sports, camps and sitters. For others, vacation means sitting camped out in front of a television ten hours a […]
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The Interior Situation of Intergenerational Poverty
Posted on April 5, 2009
From The Economist, here are some excerpts of a summary of research exploring the interior situation of how poverty is passed from one generation to the next. * * * That the children of the poor underachieve in later life, and thus remain poor themselves, is one of the enduring problems of society. . . […]
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Stereotype Lift – The Obama Effect
Posted on January 24, 2009
From Sam Dillon’s article, titled “Study Sees an Obama Effect as Lifting Black Test-Takers,” in yesterday’s New York Times. * * * . . . [R]esearchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared […]
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