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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A Government Website for Kids Scrubbed Its Climate Warnings
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “Control of the stream by which we educate the young, that’s how you control the future understanding of generations, of how the world works.”
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A Government Website for Kids Scrubbed Its Climate Warnings
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted on how environmental information online has changed under the new administration.
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Required to Detain
Opponents on campuses have been steeling themselves to keep battling a proposed anti-sanctuary bill since the Texas Senate passed the controversial measure last week.
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Using Algorithms to Predict Gentrification
Ken Steif of the School of Design is highlighted for developing algorithms to help predict the movement of housing markets.
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Online Education Costs More, Not Less
The myth that online education courses cost less to produce and therefore save students money on tuition doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, a survey of distance education providers found.
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Why Bosses Should Stop Thinking of ‘A Players,’ ‘B Players’ and ‘C Players’
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School writes about the effects of categorizing employees by their performance levels.
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Are Face Transplants Still Research? Surgeons Ask
Scott Levin of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on whether face transplants will become a new standard of care.
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For Some First-Generation Students, Fee Waivers Don’t Go Far Enough
First-generation college students face a well-known set of obstacles, from financial to social, before ever stepping foot on campus. A coalition of student groups from elite institutions, in coordination with 1vyG, a first-generation college student network, is setting its sights on removing just one of them.
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How America Counts Its Homeless – and Why So Many Are Overlooked
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice is quoted on America’s homelessness problem and how it changes over time.
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Chinese Students vs. Dalai Lama
The choice of the Dalai Lama as this year’s commencement speaker at the University of California, San Diego, has outraged some of UCSD’s Chinese students.