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February 4, 2010 | Times Higher Education (UK)

US scholar claims intellectuals played ruinous role in a century of horrors

Intellectuals - and particularly academics - have been accused by one of their own of making the world a worse and more dangerous place in the 20th century. . . .

February 1, 2010 | Bloomberg

Obama Seeks to Replace ‘No Child’ Accountability

The Obama administration will propose a new system for how states measure the success or failure of their public schools as part of an overhaul of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law. . . .

January 27, 2010 | Harvard University Gazette

HKS’s Belfer Center creates Ernest May Fellowship

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has announced a new initiative to help build the next generation of men and women who will bring professional history to bear on strategic studies and major issues of international affairs. . . .

January 27, 2010 | Education Week (subscription required)

What Is 'Excellence for All'?

Meeting Kids Where They Are—Not Where We Wish They Were . . . .

January 25, 2010 | Economics One (blog)

Opinions versus Facts About the Chicago School

New Yorker writer John Cassidy argues in a recent article that free market-oriented Chicago school thinking was largely responsible for the financial crisis . . . .

January 14, 2010 | Education Week (subscription required)

College and the Workforce: What 'Readiness' Means

After Years of Advocacy, Attention Is Paying Off. . . .

January 13, 2010 | Stanford Daily

Hoxby: increasingly selective colleges are the exception

As the number of high school graduates rose to a record high at the end of the decade, Ivy League colleges were reporting record-low acceptance rates, leading many to believe that the college admissions process was becoming more competitive than ever. . . .

January 8, 2010 | Forbes

Hell No, We Won't Pay!

The New Yorker has chosen to welcome the new decade by publishing an obituary: 45 years after the founding of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the magazine lets us know in its Jan. 4 issue, the campus protest movement is dead. . . .

January 7, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

Governor's call for giving colleges priority over prisons faces hard political tests

At the center of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech Wednesday was a proposal that outside of Sacramento might seem like common sense: Mandate that the state invest more dollars each year in its public universities than in locking people up in prison. . . .

January 4, 2010 | Becker-Posner Blog

The Revolution in the Economic Empowerment of Women

The current issue of the Economist recognizes that the dramatic change in labor force participation of women is one of the most important transformations in the economic and social worlds during the past generation. . . .