by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t going to post anything about Gene Marks’ ridiculous Forbes column of the other day, “If I were a poor black kid,” which told disadvantaged young people that if they study a lot and use lots and lots of technology, they will transcend the immense structural...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 10, 2011 | Higher Ed, Policy
Reading reports about the Bayer Corporation’s new survey of STEM department chairs at U.S. research universities leads to a fairly discouraging take-away. In asking the 413 chairs for their thoughts on why so many women and under-represented minority students...