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.
Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods show significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study.
June 12, 2018 Tags: Chicago, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, School, school choice, standardized test scores, violence
| Category: Education/K-12
Contrary to assumptions that disadvantaged neighborhoods trap children in failing schools, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist has found the opposite to be true: as a neighborhood’s income decreases, its range of educational experiences greatly expands.
September 2, 2015 Tags: high school, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, school choice, sociology, urban issues
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Social Sciences
