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July 9, 2010

Re: Do Student Evaluations Help Improve Education?

Ashley Thorne

George, thanks for sharing the Pope Center piece on student evaluations. I thought this paragraph was especially poignant: Today’s student-survey approach may tell us how students viewed the......

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July 9, 2010

Do Student Evaluations Help Improve Education?

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Professor Robert Weissberg argues that they're more likely to do the opposite. They tend to promote mediocrity and encourage at least some profs to pander to th......

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July 9, 2010

Real Sustainability: Saving Our Sense of Culture

Jason Fertig

Are we failing to hand down our cultural legacy to the next generation?

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July 9, 2010

Conferring Privilege: DOJ, Law Schools, and the New Politics of Race

Peter Wood

On the 45th anniversary of affirmative action, a law school association is working against colorblindness.

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July 8, 2010

Jennifer Gratz on the Real Question About Race

Ashley Thorne

Jennifer Gratz, plaintiff in Gratz v. Bollinger in 2003, testified in court last week against AB 2047, a new bill that if passed, will overturn Proposition 209 and allow racial preferences in Califo......

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