Paper linking frequency of Google search terms to violence against women retracted
The findings were, to say the least, shocking: A researcher in New Zealand claimed that Google searches about violence against women soared during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic raising the prospect that quarantines were leading to a surge in intimate partner violence and similar crimes.
Shocking, yes, but now retracted because the methodology of the study was “catastrophically wrong,” in words of some critics.
The paper, “COVID-19, suicide, and femicide: Rapid Research using Google search phrases,” was written by Katerina Standish, of the University of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and appeared online in January 2021 in the
Professors, students at UNC Chapel Hill demand transparency about journalist s tenure bid
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CULLOWHEE, N.C. â Cherokee Nation citizen Thomas Belt was honored on May 15 by the Western Carolina University board of trustees with the schoolâs highest honorary degree, a doctorate of humane letters.
Belt, who speaks the western dialect of the Cherokee language, retired in 2018 as coordinator of WCUâs Cherokee Language Program. According to a WCU press release, his work to preserve and revitalize the Cherokee language and traditional culture have had âprofound significance, not only for WCU, but the region and nation as well.â
âIt just finally occurred to me how prestigious it is for someone like me to be honored in this manner,â Belt said. âEven at this point I donât have words for it. The fact that I am being recognized for the work that I did humbles me because I was just doing the best that I could do with my colleagues. It is an extreme honor to accept this from the university.â
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Mention of 1619 Project sparks “grave concern” from Republican Senators
Senator Mitch McConnell and 38 other Republican senators sent Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona a letter expressing “grave concern” with what they called the department’s “effort to reorient the bipartisan American History and Civics Education programs…toward a politicized and divisive agenda.”
New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones is in the news after trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reportedly made her an offer to teach there without tenure.
The most consequential recent story about Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project she has championed and for which she won a Pulitzer Prize may be not the one in North Carolina, though. Instead, it may be the one that has been unfolding at the federal Department of Education. The department’s “Proposed Priorities: American History and Civics Education” attracted 33,967 comments in the month after they
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