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Simple intervention significantly improved patent outcomes for women inventors

While innovation is core to American identity, women inventors were named on only 13% of 2019 U.S. patents. In part, that’s because women’s patents are less likely to make it through the examination process.This post […]

How generative AI is really changing education by outsourcing the production of knowledge to big tech

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Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are now used by students and teachers at every level of education.This post was originally published on this site

Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists?

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Endless economic expansion isn’t sustainable. Scientists are telling us our planet is already beyond its limits, with the risks to communities and the economy made clear in the federal government’s recent climate risk assessment.This post […]

Initiative addresses racial disparities in special education

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In partnership with San Francisco schools, GSE Professor Alfredo J. Artiles is leading a research project to reform a system disproportionately referring Black students to special education.This post was originally published on this site

Understanding problems tougher than solving them, mobile game experiment shows

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Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he’d devote 55 minutes to understanding it and only five minutes to crafting a solution. Einstein believed that […]

Relationships help determine whether students report hazing, study shows

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College students’ relationships with friends, professional staff members, faculty and other members of their campus community are an important factor in their willingness to report hazing to their institutions, according to a new study from […]

Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports

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A new study provides evidence of the explosive growth of private club and travel teams in youth sports over the past 60 years.This post was originally published on this site

German study indicates high levels of self-censorship and perceived restrictions for scholars specialized in Middle East

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According to a new study, researchers with expertise on the Middle East and/or Israel/Palestine have been engaging in self-censorship in response to perceived and actual restrictions at German universities.This post was originally published on this […]

Graduated, now what? Survey of young Africans shows degrees don’t always land them a job

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Study hard, get your degree, and then step confidently into a stable, well-paid job. That’s long been the assumption about how to secure a livelihood: in neat, predictable stages. But it is increasingly out of […]

Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students

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As an education researcher who has studied the economic returns of higher education, I know that college degrees remain cost-effective investments for most students.This post was originally published on this site

Retail rents decrease when a marijuana dispensary moves in

As more states open the doors to legal marijuana, dispensaries are becoming a more common retail sighting. But what happens to the businesses next door when one opens for business?This post was originally published on [...]
Too much or too little AI adoption may lower workers’ job satisfaction

In research based on 2009–2020 data from 509 publicly listed US firms, lower and higher levels of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) were associated with reduced job satisfaction, whereas moderate levels were linked to greater [...]
New study shows why clothing take-back programs fail—and what truly moves consumers to act

Retailers don’t need big financial incentives to get consumers to return used clothing—but they do need the right message. A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that simply telling [...]