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...Unfortunately, seniority-based layoff policies in the teaching profession??set by law or contract in most states and heavily backed by teacher’s associations—are common but flawed practices. Those fired are most often young teachers who have missed out on tenure opportunities. Experienced teachers who take time off to pursue other projects are also penalized by the system because they lose seniority when they leave a school district. At a time when the president is calling on more Americans to enter the teaching profession, this apparent dispensability is extremely demoralizing; it makes little...
...definitely not trying to promote the idea that everyone should go to law school,” she said. “I can say law school applications are going to go up but not for the right reasons. It’s a more secure profession??there’s a long history of economic circumstances being inversely proportional to the demand for a legal education. When the economy goes down, applications go up.” In addition to the “if,” “where...
...wrong.” MOVING ON—TOO FAST? In his article, Ignatieff criticized not only the atmosphere of the Ivory Tower, but the very nature of the academic project. Ignatieff’s article attempted to draw distinctions between the judgment of academics—his past profession??and politicians, what he is today. “In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with,” he wrote. “In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions, and useless ones...
...study—funded by the Columbia-affiliated Institute on Medicine as a Profession??is the first national survey exploring attitudes and conduct related to medical professionalism, according to the authors...
...Bradford Delong ’82, a prominent economist at UC Berkeley, also weighed in on the debate on his blog, questioning whether it is “worth the sacrifice of the economics profession??s outside credibility and the further confusion of the public that is entailed when good economists defend bad policies on the outside that they are working to change on the inside...