CCF Briefing
- No progress in the achievement gap in 50 years, new study says
- Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong
- Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money
- Deciding Not to Have Children, Without Regrets
- ‘The Word “I” Will No Longer Be Part of Your Vocabulary’
- It Will Take More Than a $34,000 Drug to Stop Postpartum Depression
- Stop Calling Asian Women Adorable
- Turning 40 and Looking Death in the Eye
- This Friendship Has Been Digitized
- Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
- The First Time Women Shouted Their Abortions
- The Rise and Rise of Death Online
- Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation
- My Friend’s Cancer Taught Me About a Hole in Our Health System
- Detroit Drivers Spend Up to 36 Percent of Their Income on Car Insurance
- How Your Kids Can Ruin Your Retirement — and How to Make Sure They Don’t
- Democrats Need to Learn From Their Al Franken Mistake
- Where Did the Schizophrenics Go?
- The Burden of ‘Parent Homework’
- People Don’t Bribe College Officials to Help Their Kids. They Do It to Help Themselves.
- A Decade After the Housing Bust, the Exurbs Are Back
- Almost Half of Older Americans Have Zero in Retirement Savings
- Americans Are Having Less Sex
- No one likes the SAT. It’s still the fairest thing about admissions.
- The Lottery That’s Revolutionizing D.C. Schools
- Americans are getting more miserable, and there’s data to prove it
- From ADHD to endometriosis, women are often misdiagnosed. Why? The world was made for men.
- When parenting becomes a religion, college admissions officers become high priests
- Why women have become targets in the immigration fight
- Data shows more than half of young people in America don’t have a romantic partner
- Why Can’t We Close the Racial Wealth Gap?
- Kellyanne and George Conway: A modern marriage in the age of Trump? Or a couple in crisis?
- Metro Monitor 2019: Inclusion remains elusive amid widespread metro growth and rising prosperity
- America Is Too Glib About Breast Implants
- Why cohabiting relationships are more wobbly than marriage worldwide and what it means for kids
- The Rise of the Mom-Shaming Resistance
- The Latest Trend in Co-Working: Child Care
- Millennials Are Driving Cars as Much as Older Generations
- The Abortion Divide Gets Deeper
- Wisconsin School Bans Mock Cheerleading Awards After Harassment Accusations
- The Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings. Why?
- Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?
- Here’s What Happens When You Give Unsolicited Parenting Advice
- Americans Are Smart About Science
- Do Periods Get Worse as You Age?
- Drawing the Line Between Helping and Helicoptering
- Brunei to Punish Adultery and Gay Sex With Death by Stoning
- Even very short jail sentences drive people away from voting
- No progress in the achievement gap in 50 years, new study says
The achievement gap is as big today as it was for children born in 1954, with disadvantaged students three to four years behind their more affluent peers, said researchers Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford University and Paul E. Peterson, director of Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance.
- Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong
Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.
- Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/696794821/why-white-school-districts-have-so-much-more-money
High-poverty districts serving mostly students of color receive about $1,600 less per student than the national average. That’s while school districts that are predominately white and poor receive about $130 less.
- Deciding Not to Have Children, Without Regrets
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/opinion/letters/women-without-children.html
Women discuss a very personal decision made for various reasons.
- ‘The Word “I” Will No Longer Be Part of Your Vocabulary’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/female-marines-parris-island-crucible.html
Women make up 8 percent of U.S. Marines. The military base at Parris Island, S.C., is where these women train.
- It Will Take More Than a $34,000 Drug to Stop Postpartum Depression
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/opinion/postpartum-depression-zulresso.html
We need to pay more attention to the way our culture abuses and isolates new mothers.
- Stop Calling Asian Women Adorable
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/calling-asian-women-adorable.html
When I’m at work I want to talk about work. Not my hair or skin.
- Turning 40 and Looking Death in the Eye
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/turning-40-death.html
I used to think everything worked out for the best. But then my wife got cancer.
- This Friendship Has Been Digitized
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/this-friendship-has-been-digitized.html
Do I need to explain to my son that a bot will never have his back?
- Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html
Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol.
- The First Time Women Shouted Their Abortions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/opinion/sunday/abortion-speakout-anniversary.html
Fifty years ago, a group of women stood up in a church and talked about ending their pregnancies. The way they did so still shapes how we discuss the topic today.
- The Rise and Rise of Death Online
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/style/really-bad-stuff.html
Murder, gore and violence have always found a home on the web, and according to experts, “these videos aren’t circulated by a few maladjusted individuals.”
- Are the kids alright? Saving and wealth accumulation among the millennial generation
American millennials enjoy certain advantages compared to previous generations, such as high levels of education and demographic diversity, but they also face a number of headwinds, like a changing job market and longer lifespans, that could affect their ability to save for the future.
- My Friend’s Cancer Taught Me About a Hole in Our Health System
Caregivers aren’t supported, and America overlooks their importance.
- Detroit Drivers Spend Up to 36 Percent of Their Income on Car Insurance
https://jalopnik.com/detroit-drivers-spend-up-to-36-percent-of-their-income-1833491728
- How Your Kids Can Ruin Your Retirement — and How to Make Sure They Don’t
- Democrats Need to Learn From Their Al Franken Mistake
The country lost an opportunity to model how fair procedures can work in a #MeToo case.
- Where Did the Schizophrenics Go?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-did-the-schizophrenics-go-11553640973
The number drops to 750,000 from 2.8 million, and spending per patient soars.
- The Burden of ‘Parent Homework’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/well/family/the-burden-of-parent-homework.html
This is not about a parent helping with homework. It is work given from teacher to parent, passing directly over a child’s head.
- People Don’t Bribe College Officials to Help Their Kids. They Do It to Help Themselves.
- A Decade After the Housing Bust, the Exurbs Are Back
Home buyers, often millennials, are looking farther away for affordable housing, even if that means a long commute
- Almost Half of Older Americans Have Zero in Retirement Savings
29 percent of older Americans had neither a pension nor any assets in a 401(k) or IRA account.
- Americans Are Having Less Sex
https://freebeacon.com/issues/americans-are-having-less-sex/
More Americans reported sex drought in 2018 than any year since 1989
- No one likes the SAT. It’s still the fairest thing about admissions.
Eliminating standardized testing would remove the one admissions criterion that can prevent fraud and increase social mobility.
- The Lottery That’s Revolutionizing D.C. Schools
A Nobel Prize-winning economist designed an algorithm that transformed where Washington kids go to school. But how far can it go in addressing segregation and inequality?
- Americans are getting more miserable, and there’s data to prove it
We’ve come a long way from the peak happiness of the 1990s, survey finds
- From ADHD to endometriosis, women are often misdiagnosed. Why? The world was made for men.
- When parenting becomes a religion, college admissions officers become high priests
- Why women have become targets in the immigration fight
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/03/22/why-women-have-become-targets-immigration-fight/
- Data shows more than half of young people in America don’t have a romantic partner
- Why Can’t We Close the Racial Wealth Gap?
A new study says that income inequality, not historic factors, feeds the present-day gulf in wealth between white and black households.
- Kellyanne and George Conway: A modern marriage in the age of Trump? Or a couple in crisis?
Perhaps the couple is playing a competitive political game. But that’s still a dangerous script for a relationship.
- Metro Monitor 2019: Inclusion remains elusive amid widespread metro growth and rising prosperity
Trends in growth, prosperity, and inclusion (including by race) for the 100 largest U.S. metro areas, both for the latest year of complete data (2016 to 2017), and across a decade period (2007 to 2017) that illuminates how metro economies are performing today compared to before the Great Recession.
- America Is Too Glib About Breast Implants
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/03/fda-breast-implants/585829
The procedure is expensive and invasive. So why is it sold with jokes?
- Why cohabiting relationships are more wobbly than marriage worldwide and what it means for kids
When kids grow up with cohabiting adults, about 50 percent see the parents break up by age 5.
- The Rise of the Mom-Shaming Resistance
https://www.elle.com/culture/a26826429/mom-shaming-resistance/
- The Latest Trend in Co-Working: Child Care
In the booming co-working industry, some companies are standing out by opening their space up for children and working parents alike.
- Millennials Are Driving Cars as Much as Older Generations
Despite the buzz around ride-hailing and bike lanes, car ownership among this supposedly “car-free” cohort looks a lot like that of older Americans.
- The Abortion Divide Gets Deeper
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/opinion/abortion-heartbeat-ban-georgia.html
- Wisconsin School Bans Mock Cheerleading Awards After Harassment Accusations
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/sports/wisconsin-cheerleaders-body-shaming-banned.html
Awards for “Big Booty” and ”Big Boobie” will no longer be given to high school cheerleaders after they were challenged by parents and the A.C.L.U.
- The Landlord Wants Facial Recognition in Its Rent-Stabilized Buildings. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/nyregion/rent-stabilized-buildings-facial-recognition.html
The surveillance economy is coming, and it’s no coincidence that its first stop is in marginalized communities.
- Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/parenting/why-dont-more-american-men-get-vasectomies.html
It’s vasectomy season in the United States. But American women get sterilized at higher rates.
- Here’s What Happens When You Give Unsolicited Parenting Advice
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/style/parenting-advice-mother-in-law.html
Nothing good, that’s what.
- Americans Are Smart About Science
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-are-smart-about-science/
The Pew results show that a majority of Americans can correctly answer 10 of 11 specific questions about science, some of which require using charts or employing an understanding of the scientific process. The only question a majority of Americans answered incorrectly: only 39 percent of Americans knew antacids were made up of bases.
- Do Periods Get Worse as You Age?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/well/do-periods-get-worse-as-you-age.html
Periods can get heavier and more painful for some women after the age of 40. Sometimes it is a nuisance and sometimes it is a cause for concern.
- Drawing the Line Between Helping and Helicoptering
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/well/family/helicopter-parents-teenagers.html
In the wake of the college bribery scandal, critiques of parents who meddle too much can leave us questioning our everyday instincts to help our children.
- Brunei to Punish Adultery and Gay Sex With Death by Stoning
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/world/asia/brunei-adultery-gay-stoning.html
Statutes allowing stoning and amputation will go into effect in the sultanate beginning on April 3. That has set off an outcry from human rights groups.
- Even very short jail sentences drive people away from voting
