Neighborhood circumstances and children’s life chances: Landmark study from Harvard
2015 study from Harvard showing how neighborhood circumstance can have a substantial impact on a child’s future earnings.
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Syllabus: Critical thinking, ethics and knowledge-based practice in visual media
Fifteen-week course that gives aspiring visual journalists the opportunity to hone critical-thinking skills and devise strategies for addressing multimedia reporting’s ethical concerns.
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Estimating firearms trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border
2014 study published in Journal of Economic Geography using data on dealers with Federal Firearms Licenses to sell small arms (FFLs) to understand the flow of arms across America’s southern border.
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Racial bias and news media reporting: New research trends
2015 research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published in Communication Research highlighting how portrayals of racial minorities are changing in television news.
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Measuring the dispositions that make teachers effective: Research brief
2015 research brief on best practices for finding and developing effective teachers, by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Christopher M. Hansen and Brian R. Horn of Illinois State University.
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What children experience when mothers, fathers or both parents are incarcerated: Research brief
2015 research brief on the experiences of boys and girls who have had incarcerated parents compared to those who had not, by Allison Dwyer Emory of Cornell University.
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To be effective legislators, members of Congress need expert resources of their own: Research brief
2015 research brief on the disconnect between the complexities that Congress is asked to understand and the resources they have, by James M. Curry of the University of Utah and the Scholars Strategy Network.
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Writing about a research study: Good examples of using scholarship in reporting
2015 roundup of studies and related news articles that provide material for studying and improving techniques and approaches to writing about research.
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Does Facebook drive political polarization? Data science and research
2015 study published in Science showing that Facebook’s News Feed algorithm has a limited effect on the kinds of political posts users view and consume.
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Broadening coverage of Election 2016: Studies that can inform on gender, race, voting, inequality
2015 roundup of studies that can inform broader coverage of the presidential election cycle, with a focus on under-covered issues and themes.
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