(lower house of parliament) representing Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen. She was appointed minister for women and youth by ChancellorHelmut Kohlin January 1991. Kohl’s choice of the young female political newcomer from East Germany appealed to severaldemographicsand earned Merkel the nickname “Kohls ...
Race/Ethnicity of College Faculty. Fast Facts. National Center for Education Statistics. May 2022. (back tofootnote 3 incontent ⤶) Table 306.20.Total Fall Enrollment in Degree-granting Postsecondary Institutions, by Level and Control of Institution and Race/Ethnicity or Nonresident Status of Stude...
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The facts aren’t really in dispute. Randi Weingarten’s nonsense: irrelevant. CDC guidelines: a bit relevant, but in the context of governors could and did ignore them. Blaming the rhetoric for scaring parents: well, explain how whites weren’t fooled but non-whites were without getting ...
work over the course of 5 days. After the instructional section of the course, students were required to present course-relevant projects, designed by the instructors, such as building homemade microscopes, surgically creating a “cyborg” cockroach, and CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering in bacteria. ...
They also learn that models must fit the facts, and that a crucial part of economics is leaving the armchair and observing what is going on in the world… On the importance of recognizing the mutability of models and re-emphasizing learning in an essential discipline: “Economics 101,” from...
I read “Anti-intellectualism in American Life.” This book was written by Richard Hofstadter in 1963 and in 1964 won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. “Here the politician expresses what a large part of the public feels. The citizen cannot cease to need or to be at the mercy ...
The purposes and impact of higher education on the economy and the broader society have been transformed through time in various ways. Higher education institutional and policy dynamics differ across time, but also between countries and political regimes
These two facts together led me to half-joke on Twitter that maybe states or the feds should change their approach toward evidence. Rather than (or in addition to) encouraging schools and districts to do good things, they should start discouraging them from doing things we know or believe to...
Association of American Medical Colleges. Diversity in the physician workforce: facts & figures 2014. http://aamcdiversityfactsandfigures.org/section-ii-current-status-of-us-physician-workforce/. Accessed May 1, 2018. 3. Nunez-Smith M, Ciarleglio MM, Sandoval-Schaefer T, et al. Institutional ...