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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education and the School or Arts & Sciences comments on the importance of minority-teacher retention.
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Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education comments on the importance of assessing school climate.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the normalization of Twitter when used as a primary mode of communication.
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Less than a month after sexually explicit comments made by members of the Harvard University men's soccer team about members of the women's soccer team in 2012 went public, the Harvard Crimson reports that past members of the men's cross-country team made similar comments in yearly spreadsheets. In the spreadsheets, members of the men's cross-country team commented on the physical appearances of members of the women's cross-country team, sometimes in a "sexually explicit" way, according to the Crimson.
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Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences gives a historical account of the long-term shift in the political parties during the middle of the 20th century.
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When officials at San Jose State University in California heard about a pair of sexual assaults last month, the school jumped into action. The suspected rapist was immediately questioned by the police and subsequently ordered to stay away from the two women he was accused of assaulting, moved into off-campus housing, and temporarily suspended. Still, the university's actions faced criticism from students when the school failed to send out a safety alert to the campus community.
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Student debt: Bernie Sanders ranted about it, other politicians talk about it, and a new study by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) confirms that newly minted college graduates in the class of 2015 left school with a record high average student loan burden of $30,100. Currently, student loan debt in the United States totals nearly $1.4 trillion.
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LeBron James’ education program was designed to get “at risk” kids into college. But what happens when they get there?
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At Connecticut College, as at a growing number of campuses nationwide, students are encouraged to speak up if they hear remarks celebrating or condoning sexual aggression against women. In one training scenario, male students ask a peer if he really means it when he boasts of such conduct. So when news broke that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had bragged of groping women, and then trivialized it as "locker room talk," it felt to some students like a repudiation of their efforts.
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The University of Michigan will invest $85 million over the next five years to increase diversity among its students and staff, the school's president announced two days after hundreds of its staff attended a rally against a series of racially-charged fliers discovered on the campus in Ann Arbor. The programs are part of a five-year strategic plan President Mark Schlissel unveiled at a summit Thursday.