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The Hill: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed a new study that found lead exposure from speedways hurt academic performance at area schools. “It’s a very clever natural experiment,” he s...

Hunger forces families in every community across the United States to make impossible choices. That is, according to Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the country. Rob Fischer To educate the public about hunger and encourage them to take action, the organization has de...

It's Claudia J. Coulton's dream to increase positive impact by expanding support for students concentrating in Community Practice for Social Change. The goal for Community Practice scholarships in honor of Dr. Coulton is $25,000. You can help reach this goal by making a gift today! Your gift will he...

WEWS: Rob Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, said illiteracy has its roots in early childhood—along with income disparities, food and housing issues and mental health concerns. “When you think about ki...

Research from Rob Fischer and Meghan Salas Atwell, faculty members at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was cited in a blog post on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website in April 2022. Fischer and Atwell, who serve as co-director and associate director of t...

Retiring after nearly 45 years on the Mandel School faculty and almost 35 leading the Poverty Center, Claudia Coulton’s career has centered on using data to make community change When Claudia Coulton, PhD (GRS ’78, social welfare), delivered a major presentation on the potential impacts of welfare ...

Dr. Claudia J. Coulton, the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Research and Social Change and Distinguished University Professor, will retire on June 30, 2022. Dr. Coulton joined Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor in 1978 and has since distinguished herself as an important ...

WCPN: Robert L. Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, said that Cleveland saw a surge in lead-safe applications in the final months of 2021. “I want to honor the fact that we have really made considerable progress over this year,” he s...

Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy at University of Pennsylvania produced a three-part series of reports, funded by the Gates Foundation, to explore the value of linked administrative data in the study of programs and policies that drive mobility out of poverty. Claudia Coulton, the Lillian...

Cleveland Scene: Robert L. Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the dramatic increase in the number of out-of-state real estate investors in the Cleveland housing market....