Joshua Parrish

Nov 15, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Shannon Stock |Michael Burns |Justin Waller |Joshua Parrish

Key PointsQuestion  Are there racial and ethnic differences in the epidemiology and progression of prostate cancer (PC) across disease states? Findings  In this cohort study of more than 6 million US veterans, Black patients had a greater than 2-fold higher risk of PC vs White patients across all disease states. Disease progression risk varied by disease state and race and ethnicity, with Black and Hispanic patients having higher progression risks in early states but lower risks in later states.

Apr 10, 2024 | nature.com | Sriram Deivasigamani |Joshua Parrish |William J. Aronson |Christopher Kane |Martha K. Terris |Lourdes Guerrios-Rivera | +3 more

AbstractCertain widely used pathological outcome prediction models that were developed in tertiary centers tend to overpredict outcomes in the community setting; thus, the Michigan Urological-Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC) model was developed in general urology practice to address this issue. Additionally, the development of these models involved a relatively small proportion of Black men, potentially compromising the accuracy of predictions in this patient group.

Apr 12, 2023 | the74million.org | Joshua Parrish

Help The 74 secure a bright future. Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. Even as schools wield billions of dollars in federal COVID relief, “only a small fraction of students have received school tutoring,” says coverage of tutoring access and availability published by Chalkbeat and The Associated Press. In a sampling of 12 districts, fewer than 10% of students had received tutoring services during the fall semester of 2023.

Mar 24, 2023 | the74million.org | Joshua Parrish

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Curriculum publisher Amplify released mid-year data from over 300,000 students in 43 states showing that more K-2 grade students are reading on grade level than last year, but the progress of third graders, dubbed “COVID kids”, has remained stagnant.

Mar 10, 2023 | the74million.org | Joshua Parrish

Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Both this school year and last school year, “public school leaders estimated that about half of their students began the school year behind grade level in at least one academic subject,” says Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, of new data recently released by NCES’ School Pulse Panel.