A $15 minimum wage: What the research says
Academic studies that explore minimum wage changes tend to look at how those changes affect employment levels. There are hundreds of studies on this.
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News media outlets vary widely in how they cover preprint studies, new research finds
Alice Fleerackers had already been looking at how online news stories portray uncertainty around science when the pandemic hit. She decided to turn her attention to the use of preprints.
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Multicultural education: How schools teach it and where educators say it falls short
Below, we provide a sampling of academic research that looks at how multicultural education has changed in recent decades and inconsistencies in the way today’s teachers teach it.
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Can academics and journalists collaborate on big data projects? The SilverLining Project wants to find out
“We noticed in the media there’s more and more spectacular break-ins and people stealing data and putting it on the dark web,” says Gary King, an expert in big data analysis. “We were wondering whether we could create some good out of all this bad.”
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Research: TV news outlets overrepresent extreme partisans in Congress (Plus: 4 tips for better coverage)
The analysis indicates broadcast news outlets are partly to blame for growing political polarization in the U.S. and voters’ heightened dislike for members of the opposing political party.
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Research on the Confederate flag, divisive politics and enduring meanings
What most people think of as the Confederate flag is actually the battle flag of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia — it was never an official flag of the Confederacy.
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At protests that draw counter-protesters, people on the left more likely to face arrest
In analyzing 64 U.S. protests from 2017 and 2018 where counter-protesters were present and arrests were made, York University sociologist Lesley Wood finds right-leaning protesters account for 8% of total arrests while left-leaning protesters account for 81% of arrests.
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The stock market is not the economy. Right? Here’s what the research says.
“The stock market is not the economy” has been the phrase of the COVID-19 recession among business journalists and economists. Here’s the research on the disconnect between stocks and Americans’ personal economies.
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Covering pro-Trump rallies and far-right groups: 4 tips from disinformation scholar Joan Donovan
There are several things she says journalists can do to minimize harm and keep rumors, lies and other forms of bad information out of their coverage. Here are four of them.
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The 10 most popular Journalist’s Resource posts of 2020
As it turns out, 2020 has been an enormous news year — extraordinarily overwhelming, relentless and historic.
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