Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school, it makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college.
November 12, 2018 Tags: college, Education, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, one black teacher, race, teaching
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college, concludes a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist.
April 5, 2017 Tags: black students, black teachers, college, Education, graduation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, poverty, race, race match effect, role model effect
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
Chronically ill, low-income women who thought they were dying, experienced a sharp reduction in domestic violence after getting access to a life-saving treatment, a Johns Hopkins University-led study found.
March 8, 2017 Tags: domestic violence, economics, HAART, Nicholas W. Papageorge, women's health
| Category: Business and Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes. This is especially true for black boys.
March 30, 2016 Tags: economics, Education, Nicholas W. Papageorge, race, teacher expectations, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
A sick person is obviously willing to pay for a good medical treatment, but a Johns Hopkins University economist and his collaborators finds healthy people are potentially a much broader, if largely overlooked, market for medical innovations.
December 1, 2015 Tags: AIDS, economics, HAART, HIV, infectious disease, innovation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, pharmaceutical research
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing
