Warrington in the News Articles: page 22

Most EdTech applications focus on improving a part of educational production. However, these applications are suboptimal because they do not leverage other entities in the educational ecosystem (such as peers and families to motivate and support students) and connected processes (such as sharing students’ knowledge gaps with teachers so that they can provide additional class instructions), argues Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar, as part of a continuing look into the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools in India. In this article, he proposes an integrated framework of education production that shows how various entities in the education ecosystem participate in different education-generating processes to produce education.

In partnership with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF), Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar is researching the impact of EdTech in K-12 schools. In his latest report, he examines whether the EdTech development and deployment, both inside and outside Indian schools, are aligned to maximize educational production or, more precisely, skills formation. These observations and prescriptions would generalize to k-12 schools in most developing countries.

JCPenney Eminent Scholar Jinhong Xie and Brian R. Gamache Professor Woochoel Shin‘s new research based on thousands of reviews posted on Amazon shows that when people received free products in exchange for reviews, their ratings were significantly inflated — and product sales were stronger — even though reviewers disclosed that they received the product for free.

Matherly Professor Anuj Kumar has been working with the RightWalk Foundation (RWF) for the past few years to answer this question. During this period, he visited numerous K-12 schools in Uttar Pradesh, India, and interacted with teachers and administrators on one side and students and their parents on the other.

He shares his insights about the state of K-12 schooling in India, which generalize to other K-12 schools in most developing countries, and how we can supply quality K-12 education.

In Florida, the state’s growing population has been pushing up inflation – particularly via housing costs. It’s a trend that accelerated during the pandemic, when remote work gave some Americans the freedom to relocate, economists say. “A lot of people are still coming to Florida because the economy is really strong, and many like the fact that we don’t have an income tax like in New York, for example,” said Amanda Phalin, Instructional Associate Professor at the University of Florida.

Consumers may not take notice as they stock up on hot dogs and related condiments ahead of the July 4 holiday, but new research from Russell Berrie Eminent Scholar Chris Janiszewski suggests the placement of these products in grocery store displays can be highly orchestrated to influence your buying decisions.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Western governments implemented a suite of sanctions on Russian businesses, escalating the sanctions they implemented following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. However, new research from Clinical Associate Professor Alex Settles, based on the years following the Crimean annexation, reveals that the Russian sanctions only temporarily hurt targeted firms. The findings suggest that a major tool in the diplomacy toolkit – economic sanctions – do little to deter or reverse aggressive actions by other countries.

“We initially thought this research was going to show that the Russian sanctions worked,” Settles said. “But once we analyzed the data, we started seeing what we saw on the ground, which is there did not seem to be long-term negative impacts from these economic sanctions.”

New research from Assistant Professor Shu He finds selectively targeting drug dealers leads to fewer dealers and drop in transactions.

New research from Assistant Professor Melissa Rhee shows that policies restricting the use of ride-hailing apps like Uber or Lyft can hurt the transportation ecosystem of a city.

Who says retirement is the only golden opportunity? Research from Assistant Professor Yixuan Li shows how retirement-age workers are defying expectations of longevity.