Brookings Institution

incorrectly. Consequently, the person who guessed more right but still knew as much as the person who guessed more wrong would get a higher score on the test even though both people knew just as much as the other. A study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and "caused by fluctuations that had nothing to do with long-term changes in learning..." This reveals that these tests don’t show their true knowledge and that a…

Former Secretary of State and current democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton recently spoke at the Brookings Institution about the implementation of the Obama Administration’s Iran Nuclear War Deal. Clinton uses the statis theory to state her position on a highly debated political issue on foreign policy. The Iran nuclear deal is an agreement led by the United States that sets limitations for Iran’s nuclear program. Clinton starts by stating that she supports the deal but the goes on…

When people hear the words ‘unauthorized immigrant’ the first thing that comes to their mind is people who are out to steal jobs from citizens, and cost taxpayers billions for social services. And usually the most proposed solutions to unauthorized immigration is that we should either deport them or build a wall on the Mexican border to prevent them from returning. But we should ask ourselves, how much of this is really true? And if the solutions proposed would really be effective? To begin…

leaves or delays entering the workforce to attend school. Using average earnings for 18- and 19-year-olds and 20- and 21-year-olds with high school degrees (including those working part-time or not at all), Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney of Brookings’ Hamilton Project calculate an opportunity cost of $54,000 for a four-year degree.” The part in parentheses pokes some holes in this data but this helps the reader to trust them due to their willingness to be…

William Frey, demographer at the Brooking Institution states, “But Hispanics really are a very big part of America’s present and future.” (118) And it’s very true, many studies have found that Hispanic are taking over and are becoming a large community. Not only have we become a larger community…

Tiger Wang, Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Lubowitz, Humanities Project, 18 April 2022. The Electoral College: Is it a good or a bad system for electing the president? The electoral college is a good system for electing presidents because it gives each state its fair say in who gets elected, it provides a widely accepted ending by providing a clear answer of who would be elected as president, and it allows candidates to more effectively allocate their campaign’s money, time, and energy and focus on…

As she prepared herself for this up coming presidential election, former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton defends her boss President Obama’s Immigration reform policy. On the road, Secretary Clinton continues to inform the American people the need for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. Secretary Clinton believes that by enacting better comprehensive immigration reform policy will also create the pathway to citizenship; such policy will keep families together, and…

Psychology found that the more social interactions with close friends a person has, the greater their self-reported happiness. There was one great exception. People with more intelligence are less likely to find happiness in social interactions. Brookings Institution researcher Carol Graham gives the explanation that those with more intelligence “are less likely to spend so much time socializing because they are focused on some other longer term…

in Maycomb caused hate and bias between white people and black people. Even though this extreme segregation is now illegal, due to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is still mindlessly integrated in our modern society. One study done by the Brookings Institution took data from a census in the U.S., and concluded that if racial integration in residential housing was rated on a scale of 0-100, 0 being perfect integration and 100 being exact separation; most major U.S. cities would fall between…

incarcerated, some feel prisons should help those in need with treatment, and others feel they need to be left to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Prisoners around the world are being treated unfairly and abused in mental health institutions. When they begin to suffer or have a manic attack instead of being treated by a doctor, they are subjected to abuse and are commonly sent to solitary confinement, which ends up making their…