A proposed 'historic' investment in schools that serve low-income children would also give the federal government more power over America's schools, a political scientist argues.
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Too many patents and too little information about them makes it hard for the system to weed out patents that unfairly block inventors.
Graduate programs can be rich in scholarship and still prepare students for real-world careers.
A scholar of cyber conflict sets out why retaliation doesn't prevent future attacks, and explains what might have a better chance.
It's concerning that tech executives can exercise so much power over who can use their platforms. But the alternative – government intervention – could be much worse.
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has resigned. Five experts comment on the impact she had on education.
The US economy's record pandemic plunge was followed swiftly by a record upswing. But what does it all mean?
Millions of public school students are learning online, mostly at home. Any standardized tests they take in this unusual school year may not yield reliable data about their academic progress.
In a recent survey, more than three-quarters of white parents of 6- to 11-year-olds said they didn't talk to their kids very much about racism.
Thinking of SARS-CoV-2 as an invisible enemy with an evil personality and humanlike motivations is a natural offshoot of the way people evolved to anthropomorphize so as not to overlook threats.
Public criticism of the Chinese government's handling of coronavirus shows that the Chinese people can overcome both strict censorship and a gaping class divide when they get angry enough.
Climate change, globalization and concerns about rat poison soon could drive rat infestations to levels not seen in centuries. One way to curb them is getting humans to stop wasting food.
National security isn't just about warding off physical attacks. It's also about understanding cultural forces that drive a society to think, feel and act in certain ways, a political scientist says.
The Vietnam War ended in 1975. But it's still harming the health of Vietnamese people born after the conflict ended.
A political scientist warns that a new lobbying initiative launched by Bill and Melinda Gates could harm US higher education.
In the US, poverty is measured by income level. But that measure misses many other aspects of poverty – like unemployment, poor health and a lack of health insurance.
A political scientist explains how a new commission that wants to measure the economic value of a college degree could end up devaluing the liberal arts.
Some cite mental illness, or at least instability, as a basis to remove Pres. Trump from office. A doctor and a lawyer use a 1965 novel, 'Night of Camp David,' to explain why that's unlikely.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to get schools to adopt a "high-quality" curriculum. But the effort will constrain teachers and stifle creativity, an education scholar argues.
El popular videojuego es peligrosamente adictivo, roba a los estudiantes un tiempo precioso y fomenta el individualismo en lugar de cooperar para sobrevivir, argumenta un politólogo.
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
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Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Fordham University
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Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University
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Professor of English and American Studies, Fordham University
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Professor of Theology and Latin American Studies, Fordham University
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Visiting Research Scholar, Fordham University
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
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Professor of economics and disability studies, Fordham University
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Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Fordham University
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Professor of Psychology, Fordham University
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Assistant Professor of International Politics, Fordham University
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Course Instructor, Fordham University
