Harris School of Public Policy Studies

after high school graduation, but only 66.8% of middle-income students and 54.1% of low-income students immediately enrolled in college” (Taylor, 2015). However, the federal governments role in education is limited with most education policy is decided at the state and local levels. Which have placed an impetus on dual credit programs in in an effort to increase postsecondary participation and completion rates. Advocates of dual-credit argue that these programs have the potential to increase postsecondary matriculation and attainment by allowing high school students to experience the rigor of college courses, accelerated their degree completion timeframe,…

which interests me because of the learning style. I like the idea of smaller classes with a more student focused outlook, because it involves a deeper personal relationship between the professor and student. As for the community, I know UChicago has a diverse student body, which means development of an open mind, and plenty of interesting traditions. One of my favorite ones is the zombie run, which sounds quite entertaining. Along with a beautiful campus, the University of Chicago is the type of…

Benjamin Harris is an author and associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management. He writes articles for The Hamilton Project, which is an economic policy initiative founded in 2006 that advocates for individual economic security. He also writes for the Harvard Business Review. On the 14 th of March, 2018 Harris posted an article on the Harvard Business Review titled, “What If Companies Were Required to Tell Workers What Their Colleagues Earn.” This article recognizes the problems…

Researchers from the University of Wyoming College of Criminal Justice, Associate Professors Scott Culhane John Boman, and Psychology Department Associate Professor Kimberly Schweitzer published their 2016 study in the journal Police Quarterly regarding the role body worn cameras play in public perceptions of whether police use of force is justifiable. Professor Culhane completed his post-graduate degree at the University of Texas El Paso in Legal Psychology from the University of Texas at El…

Speech-pathologists provide critical services to many children nationwide. While the numbers of children in need of special services continue to increase, the number of speech-language pathologists employed in schools has decreased. The shortage of speech-language pathologists, caused by a growing workload, could potentially threaten the education of special needs students. Today, special educators are faced with growing responsibilities that can be challenging. While trying to meet all the…

Since the 1990s, Canadian public and academic discourse has largely framed young people as apathetic and disengaged from civic life. The perceived lack of civic engagement among youth has led to the proliferation of various programs and initiatives, both state-led and community-based, which aim to overcome and address the perceived issue of young people’s lack of participation (Caron, Raby, Mitchell, Thewissen-LeBlanc, & Prioletta, 2016, pp. 3-4). As Caron et al. (2016, p. 4) note, many of these…

The economic class gap in recent years has widened drastically as the rich have become richer and the middle and disadvantaged classes have stagnated in growth. In a time when money fuels the world, and education is the safest path to a well paying job, school has become more essential to the average American. Although students are all equally likely to achieve what they apply themselves to, racism and economic stereotyping has often hindered their passions from showing. To combat this, policy…

Standardized testing and sources My policy topic I have chosen will be over standardized testing in Texas. Standardized testing in the state of Texas has been around since 1980 starting with TABS and has since evolved into the STAAR test (STAAR stands for “State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness.”) The STAAR test is supposed to test students over reading, writing, math social studies, science etc. Over the years that STAAR has been around, there have been several incidents with scoring…

such as music, video games, the internet or even in-store promotions to encourage product purchase, with a special focus on high-sugary drinks and foods (Harris et al., 2009). Evidence shows that advertising not only increases…

that behaviour is determined by biology, several biologists have tried to prove this, Charles Darwin (1859) believed that genetics play a role in influencing human behaviour. Judith Rich Harris and the “Nurture Assumption” Judith Rich Harris is a psychology researcher and author of a published book titled the “nurture Assumption” (1998), in this book she devalued the idea of parents being the crucial factor of a child’s development, rather she implicated that a child’s peer group has a greater…