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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Lawrence H. Summers has provoked a storm of controversy by suggesting that the shortage of elite female scientists may stem in part from "innate" differences between men and women.
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In September 1996, Alan Greenspan was fixated on a statistic neglected by most economic forecasters. It was service-sector worker productivity, a measure of how much an employee could produce in an hour.
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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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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Voters this fall could take small steps toward increased diversity in the Senate.
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The low number of minorities coaching in college football reflects a lack of diversity among college and conference leaders, according to a University of Central Florida study.
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Most diversity training efforts at American companies are ineffective and even counterproductive in increasing the number of women and minorities in managerial positions, according to an analysis that turns decades of conventional wisdom, government policy and court rulings on their head.
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A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X.
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Mike Baker looks at how the language of management has begun to dominate discussions of education.
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Wanting to maintain a role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen elite schools have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.
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Mike Baker examines the factors that combine to make a good teacher.
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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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Turnaround CIOs use different skills and have different kinds of careers than their long-term counterparts.
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The low number of minorities coaching college football teams reflects a lack of diversity among college and conference leaders, according to a University of Central Florida study released Wednesday.
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It's not just students who need to brush up on their writing.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.