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5 hours ago · June 26, 2024, 1:52 p.m. ET. Harvard University’s task forces on antisemitism and anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias released preliminary reports on Wednesday, each finding a climate of bias and ...
1 hour ago · Early life Childhood and education Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer into a non-observant Jewish family in New York City on April 22, 1904, to Ella (née Friedman), a painter, and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a successful textile importer. Robert had a younger brother, Frank, who also became a physicist. Their father was born in Hanau, when it was still part of the Hesse-Nassau ...
5 hours ago · Study #1, a collaboration including Tom Kane at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research and Sean Reardon at Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project, estimates that every $1,000 in federal relief spent per student bought the kind of math test score gains that come with 3% of a school year, or about six school days of learning. That’s during the 2022-23 academic year.
1 day ago · Maximilian Karl Emil Weber ( / ˈveɪbər /; German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally. His ideas continue to influence social theory and research .
1 day ago · Clare R. Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, where she serves as Core Faculty for the UO Center for Global Health and on the executive leadership teams for the UO programs in Global Health and Disability Studies. She received her ScD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H ...
1 day ago · Boston University. / 42.34889°N 71.10028°W / 42.34889; -71.10028. Boston University ( BU) is an American private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont, before being chartered in Boston in 1869. It is a member of the Association ...
1 day ago · Eastern Nazarene College, a private liberal arts college in Quincy, will close after nearly 125 years following years of "significant financial headwinds," administrators announced Tuesday afternoon.
