One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s on the schools...
Say you‘re a developer who’s in the market for a job. You come across a job listing， perhaps something like the one I recently posted. It‘s a job you’re interested in and you send in your resume. Her...
When it comes to schooling， the Herrera boys are no match for the Herrera girls. Last week， four years after she arrived from Honduras， Martha， 20， graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. ...
Imagining being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with you， you w...
Educators are seriously concerned about the high rate of dropouts among the doctor of philosophy candidates and the consequent loss of talent to a nation in need of Ph. D. s. Some have placed the dro...
Half the game is 90 percent mental，“ Yogi Berra once said， or something like that， and science is now getting around to putting his aphorism to the test. Researchers including Debbie Crews of Arizona...
The sun is not growing weaker， yet its light appears to be dimming. Between 1960 and 1990， some scientists believe， the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface may have declined as much as...
The basic workings of DNA and RNA are no mystery. It’s now well known that DNA consists of four nucleotide “bases” (A， T， C and G)， whose linear sequences (AATAGGCTCC……) encode hereditary information....
For 30 years， Smithsonian Institution archeologist Dennis Stanford searched in vain for the origins of the first Americans. Every textbook described how mammoth-hunters from Siberia had migrated acro...
If you wanted to question whether global warming is indeed upon us， last week was not the time to do it. Two weeks before the official beginning of summer， a heat wave baked the eastern third of the U...