News from August 2016
Job Posting: Tenure Track Faculty Position
Improving Public Policy Through Data and Behavioral Science RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open August 18th, 2016 through October 17th, 2016 DESCRIPTION The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track appointment to the faculty at the Assistant Professor rank, with an expected start date of July 1, 2017. The Goldman School of Public Policy seeks applications from researchers who use data and behavioral science with an intent to solve pressing social problems, improve public policy,…
Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure
Monica Ramos Although it’s been a long time, I vividly recall my reaction when I learned that I had been admitted to Amherst College: The admissions office must have made a terrible mistake. I had graduated from a Long Island high school where most students didn’t go to college, so I was convinced that at Amherst I would be overmatched by my better-educated, more sophisticated classmates and sliced to ribbons by my brilliant professors. To my…
To Teach a Child to Read, First Give Him Glasses
Lilli Carré Half a dozen police cars ring the entrance to the Morris Educational Campus in the Bronx. To enter this venerable Gothic-style building, I have to make my way through a phalanx of policemen and be scanned by a metal detector. But the show of force doesn’t signal that the high school students inside pose a threat. It is intended to protect the students, who fear getting mugged, or worse, in a high-crime neighborhood situated in…
Q&A: The Economic Consequences of Denying Teachers Tenure
Third grade teacher Lynn Haskins talks to students at a school in Shingletown, California, on May 25, 2016. Political and legal battles surrounding teacher tenure and seniority have been raging in California over the past couple of years. In 2014, in Vergara v. California, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that a variety of teacher job protections worked together to violate students’ constitutional right to an equal education. This past spring, in a 3–0 decision, the California…
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