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Why Betsy DeVos’ vision of education does little to ensure equity

February 6, 2017

The Hechinger Report | By Natasha Kumar Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education. "Betsy DeVos promotes a vision for society that outwardly extols the idea of equity but in reality does little to ensure it," writes Warikoo.



Why aren't we moving as much for work?

April 14, 2017

Marketplace | Daniel Shoag (PhD'11), Associate Professor at Harvard Kennedy School, sees reasons to worry about declining geographical mobility, driven in part by higher housing costs in high-growth areas, which limit opportunity for low-income Americans and increase inequality.



Why a Harvard Professor Has Mixed Feelings When Students Take Jobs in Finance

April 10, 2015

The New York Times | By Sendhil Mullainathan



Why 21 year-old offenders should be tried in family court

October 2, 2015

Washington Post | By Vincent Schiraldi and Bruce Western, senior research fellow and chair, respectively, of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Malcolm Wiener Center.



Whose Fault is Ferguson? The Roots of Our National Discord

May 18, 2015

Miller Center American Forum | Speaker: Orlando Patterson. Television broadcast: June 7th on many PBS stations (Note: Not carried in Boston-area). Audio and video will also be made available on the Miller Center website.



Who's Afraid of a Health-Care Ruling?

February 20, 2015

The Atlantic | By Theda Skocpol



Who Read What in 2016

December 7, 2016

Wall Street Journal | What Matthew Desmond and 49 others named as their favorite book this year. Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and the author of Evicted.



Who Owns the Robots Rules the World: The Deeper Threat of Robotization

April 15, 2016

Harvard Magazine | By Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics



Who is affirmative action for?

June 23, 2016

Boston Globe | By Natasha Kumar Warikoo (Ph.D. '05), Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Why ultimately the narrow diversity defense of affirmative action is harmful, Warikoo argues. Draws from her forthcoming book based on research with undergraduates at Ivy League universities, The Diversity Bargain (University of Chicago Press).



Who Gets to Vote?

September 30, 2016

The New York Times | By Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Who Gets to Vote?

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