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Resistance has resulted in pitched battles at school-board hearings and within academia over the future of U.S. math education. Educational scholar E.D. Hirsch Jr. says opposition to the newest math is "suddenly making people wake up and say, It doesn't work, it doesn't comport with reliable theories, and we're making a mistake...
...Women's Leadership Conference, which brought together an international group of women working in politics, business, academia, non-governmental organizations and the grassroots, addressed a range of topics from women's leadership in the private sector to gender and conflict resolution...
...academia in the United States, we may be in a moment of main-streaming a number of these issues which have sometimes previously been ghettoized in women's studies and other areas or have been called 'women and politics,'" she said. "If this is happening nationwide, the Kennedy School will fit nicely with that movement. If it's not happening nationwide, then the Kennedy School will take a leadership role...
...AAUP's study, "Not So Good: The Economic Status of the Profession," alarmed many in academia because inflation, at 3.3 percent, out paced the average salary increase for full-time faculty across the nation, a meager three percent for the last academic year...
...world of public affairs that has, to some extent, replaced literary intellectual life as a focus of ambition and status for brainy nonscientists. For science itself, substitute "Silicon Valley," in the metaphorical sense of the entrepreneurial world that is steadily encroaching on the labs and clinics of scientific academia. And the "two cultures" problem remains...