by Larry Shultz | Apr 1, 2023 | Education
The “Pathways to Prosperity” study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2011 shows that just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years. Only 29 percent of those who start two-year degrees finish them within three...
by Larry Shultz | Apr 1, 2023 | Democracy, Education, Public Health
Why are Americans dying so young? | Financial Times (ft.com) The USA was 69th in Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) in 2019. List of countries by life expectancy – Wikipedia The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 31, 2023 | Democracy, Education
We are also lagging in civic literacy. In a 2006 test given to college seniors at 25 random colleges the average grade was 48.4%. For example less than 46% know that “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” comes from The Declaration...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 30, 2023 | Cities, Democracy, Education, Evolution
Tightness–looseness across the 50 united states (pnas.org)
by Larry Shultz | Mar 29, 2023 | Covid-19, Education, Public Health
Lessons from the First SARS Virus – Ko-fi ❤️ Where creators get support from fans through donations, memberships, shop sales and more! The original ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ Page.
by Larry Shultz | Mar 28, 2023 | Biodiversity, Cities, Climate, Ecology, Education, Energy, Scale
Political parties that are more pro-oil development, pro-private car, pro-sprawl, and pro- additional resource use look to have even greater public support going forward. These desires will have even more potent effects on the already feeble, anemic and embattled idea...