Our Experts in the News: September 2023
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Universities Are Teaching Competing Math Philosophies to Future Teachers. Why That Matters
September 29, 2023
But efficiency and reducing students’ cognitive load aren’t the only reasons that math facts are important, said Nicole McNeil, a professor of cognitive psychology who studies math learning at the University of Notre Dame.
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OSV News
Writers’ Strike Over As Union Secures Landmark Deal With AI-Related Labor Protections
September 28, 2023
“It’s just the foundational idea that workers must be foregrounded in businesses’ estimation of thinking about their use of labor,” Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, told OSV News. “Workers’ interests and workers’ inherent dignity is something that needs to be considered — and at the same time, the commitment to workers having a voice in the process.”
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Preparing Math Teachers: What’s in the Coursework?
September 27, 2023
It’s a figure that troubled Nicole McNeil, a professor cognitive psychology who studies math learning at the University of Notre Dame.
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WNDU
How a government shutdown would impact Michiana
September 26, 2023
16 News Now spoke with economist Jeff Campbell from the University of Notre Dame who says, in dollar terms, there is a big difference between previous shutdowns and the upcoming one.
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The Washington Post
Here’s how to actually make friends post-college
September 20, 2023
Darcia Narvaez understands this well. She’s a developmental psychologist who explores how culture and childhood experiences contribute to human flourishing.
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Financial Times
Economists expect Fed to defy investors with more interest rate rises
September 17, 2023
Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, is among those to worry about energy prices after the decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut supply. She expects prices to rise further, potentially bidding up expectations of future inflation as well as delaying the descent in core price growth if companies opt to pass on higher costs to consumers.
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Germany has reason to be concerned. "Catastrophe is not unthinkable"
September 07, 2023
Such considerations drown out voices suggesting that extending support for carmakers could be counterproductive in the long run, writes The Economist. He evokes the views of Ruediger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame, who believes that German politicians should rely more on market forces to fill the economic space that may open up as the German automotive industry weakens.
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Adieu to a post-colonial bully?
September 05, 2023
French officials controlled every aspect of the administration and affairs of their colonies, and declared everything and everyone in these colonies to be French: “But more as in French property. In other words, as subjects of France rather than citizens. The idea behind the insistence of the rightness and dominance of French language and French culture was for Africans to aspire to be French, but of course they could never really be French because they were black and not actually from France,” Prof. Catherine E. Bolten of the University of Notre Dame, told African Arguments.
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The Guardian
Texas fracking billionaire brothers fuel rightwing media with millions of dollars
September 05, 2023
“Thanks to their incredible wealth and largesse, the country as well as the [Republican] party are now feeling the effects of their aggressive brand of religiously-charged political activism,” said Darren Dochuk, a history professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of Anointed with Oil.
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OSV News
Americans Are Talking About Labor Issues, Unions More Now Than In Recent Past, Experts Say
September 04, 2023
“I definitely think this Labor Day, there’s more of a focus by the nation on the state of labor,” said Daniel Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. “Coming out of the pandemic — and with the rise of labor organizing we’ve seen the last couple of years — it’s clear that Americans are talking about labor questions more than in the recent past.”