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Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?

January 2, 2025

The pluses and pitfalls of the world’s most disciplined primary schools

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Whitney McCoy and Shaundra Daily on Creating Inclusive STEM Spaces

December 4, 2024

Through the InventHERs Institute, Drs. Whitney McCoy and Shaundra Daily are revolutionizing how girls and women see themselves in STEM fields.

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2024 Color of Education Summit highlights equity, community, and civic action

October 7, 2024

Jennifer Lansford is quoted in article about her research on the long-term consequences of dropping out of high school, previously featured in Newsweek.

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Costs of college campus economic diversity to democracy? A view from an economics classroom

September 27, 2024

Classrooms – I might argue, especially economics classrooms – can go a long way to interrogate normative perspectives and issues from non-normative tools in all of the
ways that a true democracy demands, writes Lisa Gentian in The Duke Chronicle.

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Babies don’t come with instructions. But in Oregon, they now come with a nurse

July 23, 2024

Family Connects, an initiative started by Kenneth Dodge through the Duke Endowment, has been rolled out nationally by Family Connects International. NPR highlighted the program’s rollout in Oregon.

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Registration open for Color of Education summit featuring keynote by Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

July 17, 2024

On September 27-28, 2024, the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity will host its annual Color of Education summit. The convening will bring a community together to progress collective action toward achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in education.

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What a big experiment giving money to parents reveals

July 15, 2024

In 2018, a remarkable experiment was launched called Baby’s First Years, studying young children in the US. The main question it asked was simple: What does giving $4,000 a year, unrestricted, to families with young kids do for them?

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