Education

Professor Explains How Hiring Really Works at Universities 0
- Education
- March 20, 2019
Growing up, I was taught that fairness and justice required giving people their due. This meant that achievement and merit were the universal criteria for reward. Particular criteria such as gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity should not matter, for to exclude people on these grounds would be bigotry. How times have changed! Now our official
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Is It Time to Dump the SAT?0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Several years ago, a bright 25-year-old told me about her time tutoring those taking the SAT tests in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She worked hard to prep young people for these college admissions tests, demanded much of her students, and set the bar high for herself and them. One young man, a wealthy foreign-born
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College Admission Scandal Grew out of a System That Was Ripe for Corruption 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
As part of the “Operation Varsity Blues” case that federal prosecutors announced March 12, dozens of people – including Hollywood actresses and wealthy businessmen – stand accused of having bought their children’s way into elite colleges and universities. As a researcher who has studied how young athletes get admitted to college, I don’t see a
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Lawmakers Want to Give Voting Rights to Teens They Treat Like Toddlers with Compulsory Schooling Law 0
- Education
- March 13, 2019
Newly-elected US Rep. Ayanna Pressley caused a stir this month when she filed an amendment to lower the legal federal voting age from 18 to 16. While Pressley’s amendment failed to pass, the action brought attention to the place of teenagers in society. Regardless of how we may feel about the role of the voter,
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US Schools Are Leaving Students Ill-Equipped to Compete with Artificial Intelligence 0
- Education
- February 20, 2019
We have long known that the robots were coming, but now that they are here, the mismatch between our modern education system and the technology-fueled workplace is glaringly apparent. As robots expertly perform routine tasks and increasingly assume broader workforce responsibilities, we must ask ourselves an important question: What is our key human differentiator? The
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Booker T. Washington’s Racial Compromise?1
- Education
- February 13, 2019
I first read Up from Slavery ten years ago and was quickly surprised that it wasn’t required reading for every educator, that is, until I read the critics. In his autobiography, Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) leaves us an equal bounty of moral wisdom and caution that all began with his dream to learn. Education and merit are
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