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...Charlotte uses and he says they work,’ you would run out and find another doctor,” Fryer said in an interview with The New York Times. “Somehow, in education, that approach is O.K.”But at least one scholar in the field, Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other...
...incident, the relevant department takes medicine to cure the headache. That only fixes the problem, not the system," Professor Hu of the Beijing Institute of Technology wrote in his essay. "Now is the time to transform the way of thinking, to repair the system." Beijing-based China scholar Russell Leigh Moses isn't optimistic that will happen anytime soon. The problem is "not so much political or structural as psychological. The top leadership can't get over their anxiety that any structural reform will mean the end of one-party rule," Moses says. "They are more and more...
...markets of the past year, countless editorialists, economists, and even some public officials have likened the current crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s. And who better than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, that erudite, Ivy League scholar of the Great Depression, to steer the world’s largest economy away from the abyss of the past...
...History is not in vain. Not only does it offer memories, but also precedents. And those precedents may continue to make housing crises recur. Perhaps next time a scholar of the 2008 housing meltdown will be Chairman...
...number of different roles during his time in Cambridge, including chairman of the finance unit and director of faculty planning. He is also a currently a director of the Harvard Management Company, the group that manages Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment. Light, a highly-regarded scholar who has written extensively about structuring complex financial transaction, also took a brief leave of absence in the late 1970s from the Business School to serve as the Ford Foundation’s director of investments. “I am delighted to be joining the Board of one of the world?...