In Professorâs Model, Diversity = Productivity
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In the long-running debate on affirmative action, Scott E. Page, a professor at the University of Michigan, is a fresh voice.
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Newcomers in both houses could produce more than their share of individual standouts, especially among minorities.
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Tips for educators teaching racially sensitive literature:
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New figures on university endowments confirm it's not just the "haves" and "have nots" in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there's a growing group of the newly rich schools, and Â at the top of the heap Â a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.
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Helping the "underbanked" pays off. So does diversity.
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Science instructor Roxanne Hunker&#39;s methods are a bit unorthodox: She shuns science textbooks and seldom assigns homework. Yet year after year, her hands-on instruction has groomed a multitude
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: An important US study shows us that the effects of ethnic diversity can be read as a challenge, rather than a threat.
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Inside the new classroom power struggle: What teachers say about pushy moms and dads who drive them crazy
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Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one decidedly common trait: They're all American.
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Students design mobile data-access system for health-care workers.
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Thereâs a growing sense of urgency among educators that  every student should be on a college track.
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There's going to be a 'talent race' for people with strong analytical skills, says Babson College professor and author Thomas H. Davenport, who noted that a number of successful companies -- and sports teams -- have turned to analytics to outdo rivals.
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US academic says social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are divided along class lines.
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Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity Into a Competitive Edge By Kenneth Arroyo Roldan and Gary M. Stern Collins, 304 pages, $22.95
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Female undergraduates work harder and are more open-minded than males, leading to better results, say scientists.
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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for his school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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A top scientist in the storied, sometimes controversial field explains how a population of creatures can be viewed as a high-level organism unto itself rather than a collection of disparate individuals.