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...researchers said they were grateful for the opportunity to bring less acccessible scientific concepts into public attention...
...Somehow science has always been perceived as boring or even harmful,” Aizenberg said. “I honestly believe that [by] presenting it in aesthetic ways to the public, we can send a message that science at its core is focused on problems of societal importance...
...main theme of the conference is public art and student performance and how Ethnic Studies is represented in the public sphere and through performance,” says Lao. “It’s really broad; we just really encourage anyone who thinks that their work could fall into the field to submit...
Those in charge of designing and overseeing the online study guide library must be careful as well. The public and official status of the project introduces a plethora of potentially sticky issues related to intellectual property. Students who create study guides often lose control over what happens to their work once it is shared with others and may not want it posted online. Some study guides that get circulated around campus were created several years ago, and their authors might have concerns about their ideas becoming public. Moreover, because study guides are not official academic documents, they may be cobbled...
...budgets of schools and local governments, which have been bailed out by Sacramento ever since. It also requires a two-thirds vote to raise taxes, granting antitax Republicans, a minority in the state ;egislature, great power. Proposition 98 requires California to spend 40% of the state budget on public schools, which places enormous pressure on other state programs, such as higher education and the courts. These and numerous others have put California government in something of an ever tightening straitjacket. (Read "California's Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition...