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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Scaling Up “Evidence-Based” Practices for Teachers Is a Profitable but Discredited Paradigm:
Gary L. Anderson,Kathryn Herr +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the use of externally developed, research-based, and standards-aligned videos violates the principles of authentic inquiry that underlie professional learning communities, and they also caution that a profit-seeking education industry is increasingly behind the promotion of evidence-based products.
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Air quality and life expectancy in the United States: An analysis of the moderating effect of income inequality.
TL;DR: PM2.5 levels are more detrimental to population life expectancy in states where a higher percentage of income is concentrated in the top 10% of the state income distribution, and this finding intensifies in states with higher levels of income inequality.
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Toward an Intersectional Understanding of Process Causality and Social Context
Gary L. Anderson,Janelle Scott +1 more
TL;DR: Maxwell and Donmoyer as mentioned in this paper argue that narrow definitions of causality in educational research tend to disqualify qualitative research from influence and funding, and they argue that such narrow definitions can be used to exclude qualitative studies from influence.
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Integrating Public Health And Community Development To Tackle Neighborhood Distress And Promote Well-Being
TL;DR: Examples of programs that operate at the intersection of community development, public health, and civic engagement and the need to identify and make use of interdisciplinary approaches to ensure that all places are strong platforms for economic mobility, full democratic participation, and community health are illustrated.
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Social stratification, classroom climate, and the behavioral adaptation of kindergarten children
W. Thomas Boyce,Jelena Obradović,Nicole R. Bush,Juliet Stamperdahl,Young Shin Kim,Nancy E. Adler +5 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that, even within early childhood groups, social stratification is associated with a partitioning of adaptive behavioral outcomes and that the character of larger societal and school structures in which such groups are nested can moderate rank–behavior associations.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
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