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Gaps in Care Persist During Transition From Hospital to Home
Mary Naylor of the School of Nursing is quoted about gaps in care and communication for patients transitioning from hospitals to their homes.
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Video: Why NY Is Expanding Top Tier Higher Education in Prisons
President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison last year as he sought to build support for criminal justice reform. While it seemed to have bipartisan support in Congress this year, it now appears to be stalled amid the intensifying election campaign. But one state is moving ahead with a controversial plan to expand a rehabilitation program for some of its prison inmates.
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How Should Teachers and Parents Talk to Kids About Police Violence?
Steven Berkowitz of the Perelman School of Medicine offers suggestions on how teachers and parents should speak to children about violence.
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State, Local Spending on Prisons Outpaces Education Funding
State and local government spending on prisons and jails increased by 89 percent between 1990 and 2013, while state and local appropriations for higher education remained flat, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. During that same time period, 46 states reduced higher education spending per full-time-equivalent student, the department found. On average, the report said state and local higher education funding per student fell by 28 percent while per capita spending on corrections increased by 44 percent.
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Getting Past the First Cut With a Résumé That Grabs Digital Eyes
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School talks about résumé optimization.
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Will Employers Gain Influence in Rating the Quality of a College Degree?
It’s an anxiety-ridden decision for millions of students each year: how to compare the quality of the colleges they’re considering so they can ensure a pay off from what will likely turn out to be the largest investment of their lifetime. While a plethora of college rankings serve as a crude proxy for quality among thousands of colleges in the U.S., most students don’t attend the brand-name institutions that tend to top the rankings. In reality, students are often limited by finances, academics, or family and job obligations and have just a few choices about where to go.
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Why Academics Were Ignored
Just over a week before Britain's referendum on European Union membership, Paul Whiteley, a professor in the University of Essex’s department of government, was scheduled to take part in a BBC Norwich debate alongside three other academics to fact-check statements made by politicians from both campaigns, to remain in the union and to leave. But one of the politicians set to appear, Douglas Carswell, the U.K. Independence Party representative for Clacton, refused to appear alongside them.
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Penn Engineers Create Groundbreaking $2 Portable Zika Test
Changchun Liu, Haim Bau, Jinzhao Song and Michael Mauk of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Sara Cherry and Brent Hackett of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured for developing a $2 portable Zika virus test.
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Why Don’t Young Scientists Get More Grants? Often They Don’t Apply
After years of puzzling over how its grant-review process might be shortchanging younger scientists, the National Institutes of Health appears to have figured out a more fundamental truth: There just aren’t enough of them applying. A report published on Thursday by several federal-grant experts breaks down NIH award rates by age groups, finding that older scientists aren’t necessarily any more successful than are their younger counterparts.
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It’s Tough to Make Good Health Choices, But Science Can Help
Kevin Volpp of the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine and Katherine Milkman also of Wharton are quoted.