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May 3, 2010

What Academia Could Learn from the Business World

Ashley Thorne

Results-based accountability, for one thing, writes NAS board member Herbert London in his editorial, "Profit vs. Proselytizing: Business Lore and Academic Practice."

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May 3, 2010

Schools and Groups Train Young Eco-Warriors to 'Green' Their Parents

Ashley Thorne

Children today are getting a strong message from their schools, extra-curricular activities, and popular culture: "You need to help your parents live greener." Reinforcing this message are campaigns......

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May 3, 2010

Toward Truth in Testing

Candace de Russy

It seems that some teachers and administrators, when offered incentives (within systems such as No Child Left Behind) for boosting students' test scores, act unethically to inflate the......

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May 3, 2010

Bob Lerner, In Memoriam

Steve Balch

NAS remembers Bob Lerner, one of our first members and a brilliant statistician.

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April 30, 2010

My Thoughts on CLS v. Martinez

George Leef

Should campus groups be able to limit membership only to those who share a set of beliefs? Put it that way and the matter seems pretty innocuous. Ah, but if you state that in a pejorative way -- sho......

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