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...elimination [of affirmative action] also affected the education and experience of the majority…by limiting the expression of viewpoints in and out of the classroom.” Diversity is vital to the primary goal of a university: not only to train the brightest minds of academia, but also to prepare them to lead in a world where different races play major roles. To accomplish that, universities have the right to use whatever criteria they think fair to assemble a well-rounded and diverse class...
...support from mentors, more control over how he teaches and fewer problems with student discipline. Novice teachers are much more likely to call it quits if they work in schools where they feel they have little input or support, says Ingersoll. And there's evidence that the best and brightest are the first to leave. Teachers with degrees from highly selective college are more likely to leave than those from less prestigious schools. In poor districts, attrition rates are so high, says Carroll, that "we wind up taking anybody just to have an adult in the classroom...
...Tony Travers, head of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, says that visible groups of powerful people from other countries living and working in London is a priceless form of "soft diplomacy," advertising Britain as the place to be for the world's best and brightest. "For other people in those countries thinking of where they should invest when they go to open a new business or expand an existing one, the fact that there is a group from their own country happily living without worry in London makes it that much more attractive," he says...
Detroit's annual Auto Show displays the best and brightest prototypes for eco-friendly cars Jan. 19-27. A look at some of the top innovators from the U.S. and abroad...
High over Baghdad the plane readies for a tactical, corkscrew landing and I can see the glowing grids of the U.S. detention center on the far side of the airport below. From around 5,000 feet in the air, just past dusk, it is one of the brightest structures anywhere in sight. We land, taxi, deplane and spill out into the darkness. The highway at night is empty, wide and pitch-black. After nearly five years it is still unsecured, still dubbed the "highway of death." In some cases checkpoints are every couple of hundred yards. Wide boulevards where children...