By Monic Behnken, Associate Dean, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State University
The presence of police in schools has grown in the past 30 years. But research shows that these officers may not be the most effective method for deterring violence.
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By Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Clinical Professor of Literacy Studies, Drexel University
The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which lessons work best for their classroom.
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By Brian Mittendorf, Professor of Accounting, The Ohio State University
Donors can get two different tax breaks when they give by turning stocks, bonds and other financial assets into charitable gifts.
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By Roger Alford, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
RealPage, Inc. provides software that lets landlords keep rental prices high. The Justice Department cried foul on the price-fixing practice.
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By Jud Ready, Principal Research Engineer in Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Imagine – it’s the mid-1800s, and you’re riding your high-wheeled, penny-farthing bicycle down a dusty road. Sure, it may have some bumps, but if you lose your balance, you’re landing on a relatively soft dirt road. But as the years go by, these roads are replaced with pavement, cobblestones, bricks or wooden slats. All these materials are much harder and still quite bumpy.
As paved roads grew more common across the U.S. and Europe, bicyclists started to suffer gruesome skull fractures and other serious…
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By Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
Insurance costs are rising quickly across much of the country. Hurricanes are part of the reason, but it’s the other perils common across the Midwest and Great Plains that complicate costs.
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By Samson Mhizha, Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a similar 2015 survey, the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Welfare told reporters – and, in the intervening eight years, it was clear that many more children had ended up on Bulawayo’s streets. The situation is similar in the capital city, Harare; in July 2024 it was…
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By John Taden, Assistant Professor, International Studies Division, Pepperdine University
Daniel Banini, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College
Kingsley Agormor, Associate Professor, Public Management and International Relations, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)
Ghanaian elections have become much more challenging for politicians. In the past they have often been characterised as nothing more than an ethnic headcount. But since the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections, there’s been a growing share of swing voters.
We discovered this trend in a study, which corroborates others.
We define a swing voter as someone who has voted for a different party in the previous four presidential elections or one who has cast a…
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By Charles Helm, Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Mention the word “fossils” to people and most will probably think of bones. Of course, body fossils make up a large part of the global fossil record. But humans and other species leave their mark in other ways too – for instance, their tracks. The study of these fossil tracks and traces is called ichnology.
I am an ichnologist. In 2008 my colleagues and I launched the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project to study a 350km stretch of South Africa’s coastline. We’ve since identified more…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. © 2011 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an industrial agriculture hub, are considering a bill that would drastically reduce buffer zones meant to limit pesticide exposure.Mato Grosso’s buffer zone bill is part of a worrying trend of deregulation of pesticides in Brazil, underscoring the dangerous influence of agribusiness over policymaking.Mato Grosso policymakers should expand…
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