How Can the Achievement Gap Be Closed? A Freakonomics Quorum
…the future. Poverty and inadequate family resources are a key piece of the problem. One in four children of color lives in poverty. Two of three black children and one…
…the future. Poverty and inadequate family resources are a key piece of the problem. One in four children of color lives in poverty. Two of three black children and one…
Is the Internet really filled with pedophilic sexual predators lurking in a social network or chat room near your child? Not necessarily, according to 3 nationwide surveys done by the…
One of my earliest and happiest memories was being released from a hospital oxygen tent when I was a small child. I had developed pneumonia and was in pretty bad…
…children, each daughter increases a congress person’s propensity to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues.” For example, looking at representatives with two children, she finds that N.O.W. (National Organization for…
…Humans are obviously more like apes than like monkeys. Q: Does religiously motivated rejection of evolution (e.g. creationism) ever get in your way when working? A: I don’t experience this…
…and revisit information on sleep, nappy changes, feeding (both breast-milk and solids), medicines, and pumping. Keeping track of your child’s evolving sleeping patterns (via the internet or even your iPhone)…
…Palin the time she needed to embrace the child’s special needs, wouldn’t you think that time would also have been valuable to her children for the same reason? And even…
…that seems like the best move. It still sounds like you would be “all set” well before you are 50. Q: What’s the best way to buy a car? New…
…your child will have, but this range must be centered on an IQ of 100. Any IQ within the range that you choose is equally likely to occur. What range…
…baby booties — for $4,050. She doesn’t care what name the buyer chooses, but hopes it’s not one that will get her child’s “butt kicked.” The seller writes she did…
…the child’s gender (for example, “Do you want the Digisports or the Hello Kitty toy?”). 3. McDonald’s asked whether the Happy Meal was for a boy or a girl. 4….
…to choose your child’s sex? The Wall Street Journal reports on a Los Angeles clinic that will soon let parents choose the sex of their unborn children. Their designer options…
Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Office of War Information Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center’s cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Texas, circa…
…local German authorities must also approve first names, which have to match the child’s gender and “must not expose the child to ridicule or discrimination.” (Germany is hardly the first…
…and amplification. What About the Children? It can be argued that depriving children of parents in order to incarcerate the parents for the purpose of punishment is itself a criminogenic…
…parents carry young children in their laps, making them buy a ticket for their children instead, so that every person could wear a seatbelt. The F.A.A. refused, saying that the…
…other words, what were they thinking, and why did they think they could get away with it? A. Any comments that I might make about what individuals were thinking when…
…I think you will agree that Lisa makes excellent points. She also reinforces my belief that there has never been a feedback machine anywhere near as efficient as the internet….
…status, and number of children, is there still a wage gap? — Andy When you compare “apples to apples” (i.e., a childless, college-educated 29-year-old female in an urban area to…
…leader David Cameron — the likely winner, per the prediction markets, in the yet-to-be called election — has just unleashed a doozy: his wife Samantha is expecting the couple’s fourth…
…industrialized nations, the current rate of maternal death during childbirth is 9 women per 100,000 births. Just one hundred years ago, the rate was more than fifty times higher. In…
…you day? Child:???? Fine. Parent:? What happened? Child😕 Not Much. I’ve never asked my kids to pitch me their day.? But many a time I have asked them to tell…
…of semantic mirror image of “You’re right,” this acknowledgment seems, at first, equally likely to please.? And we certainly claim to want to hear these words more often than we…
…a third of all children in the U.S. are overweight or obese, the study underscores both the power of advertising to influence young children and the ineffectiveness of using the…
…the performance of any extra chores and activities: from housekeeping to child care to sexual relations. In all households, children have a piecework scale for their various domestic responsibilities. Good…
Photo: Kelly Crabtree Just how important is Mom during a child’s first year of life? A new working paper by the economists Pedro Carneiro, Katrine V. Løken, and Kjell G….
…murders, kidnappings, and the like. Just today, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how few child kidnappings are in fact the result of a stranger taking a child:…
…Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, to do this. An inspiring story of someone trying to turn waste into something good. That of course is great, and I like the ingenuity….
…trickier and more philosophical estate-dividing problem: (Photo: Jack Hollingsworth) My grandmother is 93 and in decent health. She has 4 biological children, 10 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild is…
…he started thinking about the need for noninvasive tests when his wife was pregnant with their first child. His wife was over 35 years old and her doctors recommended amniocentesis….