Justice: Punitive or Restorative?

Discipline in some school districts is an enormous issue. In 2012 roughly 3.5 million students were suspended in public schools and as a consequence nearly 18 million instructional days were lost...

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A Cruel Country

We live in a cruel country. In terms of life expectancy, the US ranks 28th out of 38 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, countries. US life expectancy is 78.7 years...

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Frality

Race, frailty, life and death. A recent paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research https://www.nber.org/papers/w32971 constructs measures of frailty...

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Sexual harassment: Systematic, persistent, chronic or isolated incidence?

From the media one could get the impression that workplace sexual harassment is sporadic, a case here, a case there. That gives only a spotty picture of the problem...

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The Shoes Fit. How Comfortable Are We?

The Shoes Fit. How Comfortable Are We? A racist, a racist? Who is racist? You? Me? Us? Our country, my city, my fair city? Racist? Surely not, but: Let’s see if the shoe fits....

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