According to a new RAND survey, over 80% of public school-based pre-kindergarten teachers use multiple curriculum materials. Some combine materials that focus on a particular domain – such as literacy or numeracy – while others use material that covers many domains at once, and some use both. More than two-thirds reported using materials that they created themselves, often in conjunction with commercial curricula. These are the first findings from the new American Pre-K Teacher Survey, the only nationally representative standing panel of public school-based pre-K teachers in the United States.

A study led by UC Riverside School of Business professor Boris Maciejovsky  published in the Journal of Business Ethics found that revealing employee pay unexpectedly influences workplace dynamics in ways never demonstrated before. 

 

 

When employees learn how their pay stacks up against their peers, their feelings of entitlement—and the salary they believe they deserve—can rise or fall depending on how close they are to the top of performance ranking lists, the study found.

DNTF commits funds to improve chain of survival through CPR education and additional support services

In a new study, researchers estimated that smoke from wildfires and prescribed burns caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and that these were associated with 20,000 premature deaths. Senior citizens were harmed the most, and Native American and Black communities experienced the greatest damages per capita.

Joonmo Kang, a researcher at the University of Kansas, spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they contribute much less to climate change than their fellow citizens, and detailed how they suffer the effects of extreme heat and other climate issues. He advocates for social work to take a role in addressing such climate injustice in a way that does not remove already limited resources from such populations.