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Young boys get hands-on engineering education at a work table in at STEM school

High-choice, high-status school districts

In VU BreakThru, Peabody alumni Kristin Baese and Eve Rifkin discuss school reform in Sterling Ranch – a planned community outside of Denver that won a 2015 Trans-Institutional Programs (TIPs) award and continues to flourish. Read More

Feb 14, 2018

pushpin marking location of Malawi on the map

Citizens’ attitudes toward taxation in Malawi

Writing in the Office of Cross-College Initiatives' BreakThru blog, political science Ph.D. student SangEun Cecilia Kim finds that poverty is the most common factor driving the tax aversion of Malawi citizens. Read More

Nov 15, 2017

Map of Mozambique. A detail from the World Map.

LGBT rights and health on the African continent

The recent decriminalization of homosexuality in Mozambique has not made it easier for LGBT advocacy groups to support these populations within the country. Read More

Nov 10, 2017

South African prison life: The importance of religion to inmates and ex-offenders

Many incarcerated South Africans find religion in prison, found undergraduate Zoe Psakis. Read More

Nov 9, 2017