Wednesday, November 15, 2006

"A 'balance of power' among ethnic groups may be the reason that students in ethnically diverse schools feel safer and less vulnerable." Notice regarding an article in Psychological Science- UCLA News

"Rather than addressing structural inequities along the K-12 pipeline, schools continue to rely on standardized curriculum and high-stakes assessments, which yield statistically unreliable, inappropriate measures of student knowledge." Press release- UCLA News

"While democracies often spend more money than non-democracies on public services such as health and education, a higher proportion of these services go to the middle and upper classes rather than to the poor." Notice regarding an article in the American Journal of Political Science- UCLA News

"Social skills and motivation have large payoffs in the labor market." James Heckman on education- The University of Chicago Chronicle