We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades in the U.S. and study the causal mechanisms underlying those changes. Between the 1978 and 1992 birth ...

Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education Teaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does ...

The Giants landed both Arvell Reese and Francis Mauigoa in Round 1. Tom Horak / Imagn Images This is my version of draft grades — ranking the draft hauls from 1 to 32. Last year, my three favorite ...

Richard Robinson measures time differently from most people — not in weeks or months, but in boarding passes, seat numbers and time zones. Last year, he spent more time traveling than he did at home.

The U.S. middle class is shrinking, but not because more Americans are poorer. Instead, more households are climbing into the echelons of the upper middle class due to income gains in recent decades, ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

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Abstract: The rapid growth of power-constrained applications, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables, demands sensor interfaces with high accuracy and reliability. A fundamental design ...

Years of rising costs for necessities like housing, transportation and healthcare are causing many Americans to feel like financial comfort — once a feature of middle-class life — is getting further ...

In 1958, sociologist August Hollingshead and psychiatrist Fritz Redlich wrote a pioneering book called Social Class and Mental Illness. They began the book with a memorable claim: "Americans prefer to ...

Airline cabin classes like premium economy, business, and first class can be confusing and vary significantly between domestic and international flights. On most U.S. domestic flights, "first class" ...