The booming 2024 market has created unprecedented wealth-building opportunities for professional and retail investors across the country. To find out which states are earning the best returns in their portfolios, we surveyed 3,000 Americans about their market performance over the past year. Here’s what the data showed: Copy the code below and paste it into … Read more
MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net Jen Nierva knew that Chery Tiggo would have to face a formidable PLDT side with the productive Savi Davison and the Crossovers would have to put up a lot of defense to win. A defense she was happy to lead. Article continues after this ad Armed with a six-page scouting report on the … Read more
While student loan forgiveness has been a focus throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, little is known about the borrowers lucky enough to actually receive relief. To fill the information vacuum, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Wednesday released a first-of-its-kind study of borrowers whose student loans were partially or fully forgiven. “Student loan debt relief … Read more
The study is described in a 2024 draft paper posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science. The researchers detected grading bias against the end of the alphabet in a wide range of subjects. However, the grading penalty … Read more
We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. Learn more. The old adage that money can’t buy happiness may finally need to be put to rest. A broad body of research has long shown that … Read more
Going forward, Kraft said he and other researchers need to “recalibrate” or adjust expectations around the “eye-popping” or very large impacts that previous small-scale tutoring programs have achieved. Kraft described the Nashville program as “multiple orders of magnitude” larger than the pre-COVID tutoring studies. Those were often less than 50 students, while some involved a … Read more
ChatGPT’s errors also may have been a contributing factor. The chatbot only answered the math problems correctly half of the time. Its arithmetic computations were wrong 8% of the time, but the bigger problem was that its step-by-step approach for how to solve a problem was wrong 42% of the time. The tutoring version of … Read more
Over 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, a new report published Monday in Nature Medicine estimates. The study was led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), which looked at a trove of historical temperature and mortality records from 35 different countries to make its calculations. The year 2023 broke … Read more
This analysis is evidence that widespread grade inflation, which has also been documented by the ACT, the National Center for Education Statistics and independent scholars, has persisted through 2023. In this transcript analysis, grade inflation occurred more frequently for Black and Hispanic students than Asian and white students. It was also more common for low-income … Read more