Dr. Daniel Hart (professor II, CFAS-psychology and childhood studies and director, Institute for Effective Education) offered expert perspective on the potential impact of new teaching standards upon New Jersey educators during an interview that appeared in this front-page news story.
News and Events
CURE affiliated scholar Dr. Howard Gillette authored opinion article: “Piping politics into the Pinelands Commission”
The article appeared on this regional news hub sponsored by WHYY:
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/70115-piping-politics-into-the-pinelands-commission
CURE affiliated scholar Okulicz-Kozaryn’s research quoted in Forbes article
Why Americans Don’t Like Vacations…Or Work
The governments of Germany, Australia and Japan require employers to offer four weeks or more of paid vacation to workers. This is according to a study by the human resources consulting firm Mercer. Finland, Brazil and France, on the other hand guarantee six weeks off.
Are you jealous yet? Or, are you secretly thinking there are a bunch of slackers out there in the world? Who needs that much time on a beach, right?
A study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies reveals that working more makes Americans happier than it does Europeans. The study’s author, Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, an assistant professor at Rutgers University-Camden says, “Americans maximize their… [happiness] by working, and Europeans maximize their [happiness] through leisure.”
For the complete article, please visit: http://onforb.es/1rbPWUb
Center director Paul Jargowsky speaks at National Superintendents Roundtable in Chicago July 12, 2014
Childhood Poverty and Funding Inequities – Chicago – July 11-13
July will find the Roundtable in Chicago to examine poverty and funding inequities. After being ignored for a decade or more in policy discussions about schools, poverty is again back in the national spotlight. Join experts from organizations such as the Southern Education Foundation, the Economic Justice Institute, and Stanford to discuss the extent of poverty among school children, funding inequities, and research correlating in- and out-of-school factors related to learning.
To live stream Paul’s talk, please visit: https://t.co/25eMROmmxl
Public Affairs Ph.D. candidate receives support from CURE to access PSID restricted data
Public housing was a common feature in urban areas across America. Many poor people that lived in these large, high-rise developments called these places home. Still, in terms of housing assistance programs, many issues concerning mobility are still unanswered. 
Prentiss Dantzler, a doctoral candidate in the public affairs program, seeks to understand the dynamics of public housing and mobility. Under the supervision of Paul Jargowsky, Ph.D. and the support of the Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE), Dantzler has just received approval from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor for access to restricted data files from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dantzler will use the PSID in his dissertation to analyze individual characteristics, local economic and housing conditions, and neighborhood social environments in relation to public housing exits. Dantzler is currently attending a summer research workshop at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan supported through the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers-Camden.