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
Leaders representing about 45 U.S. cities and urban scholars will convene to discuss new research on critical issues for metro areas during the 21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation symposium, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
December 1, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Barbara Mikulski, cities, crime, Economic segregation, Johns Hopkins University, Lester K. Spence, nal Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Pat Sharkey, Racial wealth gap, urban issues, violence
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences, University-Related
