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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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A Reconsideration of an Old Analysis from 1968 (i.e. Students: You Can Do This, and Do This Better)

Steven V. Miller

For example, we should all thank Joshua Alley for curating an archive of data sets that replicate simple cross-sectional linear models. However, even Appell and Loyle (2012) and Kono (2006) might be above what students can do themselves in a month with the limited time I have to teach them about things. Higher values = less rebellion.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. As incentive to integrate, the federal government in the ’60s offered emergency dollars to districts whose desegregation plans were approved. Story continues below video. What did matter was integration.

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Obama says failing to help everyone will drag down the economy. Here’s how research shows that’s true

The Hechinger Report

This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Gaza’s Deaf Community in the Face of Genocide

Sapiens

In 2012, the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children led a training in gastronomy and food service ahead of opening the first deaf restaurant in Gaza. Read more from the SAPIENS archives: “ Living as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan.”

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