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Wake Forest University professor studying remote learning challenges, seeking participants
“I’m hoping that through this research we can see the work that people are doing at home to really make things work in a really challenging time,” said Dani Parker Moore, an assistant professor of education at Wake Forest. “Most of the time, people are trying to figure out the best resources to educate their kids.” Moore said she is particularly focusing on the relationship between being an essential worker and a parent, access to technology and the ways in which parents compare their at-home learning experiences with other parents and caregivers. “We have to figure out ways to support everyone trying to really make education possible for our young people.”
July 26, 2020
Give And Take
The Character Gap with Christian Miller
Have you ever wondered if you’re a good person? Have you asked how you could be a better one? Do your moral failings bug you? Christian Miller has spent his whole life studying these questions. Wake Forest philosophy professor and the author of “The Character Gap” joined the “Give and Take” podcast to talk about morality and what it means to live a good life.
July 16, 2020
Ms.
With the U.S on the Verge of a Housing Crisis, Black Women Face the Greatest Risk
Wake Forest law professor Emily Benfer explained the far-reaching detriment of the expiration of the moratoriums: “If [moratoriums] lift before federal financial support is in place, the United States will plummet into a major eviction crisis that will have negative consequences for all of society—because when the rent isn’t paid, mortgages and property taxes go unpaid, so states, cities, school districts, landlords, banks, the housing market, entire communities suffer as a result.”
July 16, 2020
Tennis.Com
How historians view museums: Hall of fame tells a tactile tennis tale
Museums, such as the International Tennis Hall of Fame, don’t just house objects; they offer an interpretative, narrative dimension. “It’s like a movie or a book,” said David Lubin, professor of art at Wake Forest. “Somebody is producing an experience and asking you to come along for the ride.”
July 16, 2020
WFMY
Wake Forest University professor studying challenges of remote learning
Danielle Parker Moore, an assistant professor of education and executive director of The Wake Forest Freedom School, is researching the challenges of remote learning by gathering data and surveying Local parents. Although her study is in the early phases, Parker Moore is noticing access to technology plus the number of people at home who need to use it are just some of the roadblocks. She also wants to know if families got the support they needed from the district. “What were some of the ways in which that support showed up? What are some things they wish were different? Basically, what kind of challenges they had with trying to transition to that online platform.”
July 16, 2020
Yahoo Finance
In wake of coronavirus, a looming epidemic of evictions
Emily Benfer, chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force Committee on Eviction and a visiting professor at Wake Forest Law School, said that multiple studies predict between 20 million and 28 million Americans could face eviction between now and September. For comparison’s sake, an estimated 10 million people lost their homes to foreclosure between 2006 and 2014 in the subprime mortgage crisis and resulting recession. “It’s a combination of inequities that we have: Employment setting where we lack a living wage, we lack health insurance, we lack paid sick days, and so people in those industries aren’t able to create that safety net for themselves. People are paying on their credit cards, they’re taking out loans on their cars. The rent eats first, so they’re paying all they have toward the rent, and we know that because there’s been a huge increase in calls for food pantry assistance and other parts of the system being really stretched so rent can be paid.”
July 16, 2020
MIT Sloan Management Review
“The data we use to make good managerial decisions has been caught up and turned upside down in this unpredictable marketplace,” said Jeff Camm, professor and the associate dean of business analytics at Wake Forest. Camm co-authored an article about the pandemic’s impact on big data, traditional predictive models and machine learning.
July 15, 2020
New Haven Independent
$10M rental assistance program launched; Tenant advocates wary
The rental assistance program comes at a time when the country’s patchwork of eviction moratoriums, pre-existing affordable housing crisis, and soon-to-expire federal unemployment boost could lead to upwards of 20 million to 28 million Americans evicted by the end of September, according to American Bar Association Task Force Committee on Eviction Chair Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest. A recent survey by the site Apartment List found that a third of Americans did not make their full rent payment on time in July.
July 15, 2020
Popular Science
How eviction is feeding – and being fed by – the pandemic
Even in the absence of a pandemic, eviction is the beginning of a downward socio-economic slide that results in worse health outcomes, said Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest. “We can expect to see a second-wave public health crisis in the form of the comorbidities related to eviction,” Benfer said. Research has demonstrated that people who experience eviction are likely to experience chronic disease, die younger, face ongoing instability that worsens these conditions, and even experience what is known as a “death of despair”: a drug or alcohol overdose or suicide is more likely to be their cause of death.
July 15, 2020
Bloomberg Law
INSIGHT: Plastic pollution Is an environmental justice issue
Black people and other individuals of color are disproportionately affected by environmental harms like plastic pollution. Sarah J. Morath, an associate professor at Wake Forest School of Law, argues Congress can address these inequities by enacting the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act.
July 14, 2020
CNN
The psychology behind to-do lists and how they can make you feel less anxious
“When a goal is unfinished it might be a weight on your mind in terms of anxiety or worry and it colors how you see the world, because it’s sort of tugging at the sleeve of your conscious attention,” said Wake Forest psychology professor E.J. Masicampo. “It can be omnipresent whether you’re aware of it or not.” Masicampo and co-author Roy Baumeister, reported their findings from a study that showed people with unfinished short-term goals performed poorly on unrelated reading and comprehension tasks.
July 14, 2020
Plant Based News
Penny defenders’ strongest argument was that eliminating it would hurt consumers by inflating costs with a “rounding tax.” But Wake Forest economist Robert Whaples conducted a study of convenience stores and found that the final digit of purchases, which usually involve multiple products and a sales tax, was pretty much random. “And so if you round it to the nearest nickel, the customer wouldn’t get gouged.” Sometimes you’d round up; other times you’d round down. In the end, it would basically be a wash.
July 14, 2020