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Education Department Now Plans a College-Rating System Minus the Ratings
The U.S. Department of Education has retreated from its controversial plan to create a giant college-ratings system, top officials revealed on Wednesday. Instead, by late summer the department is now promising to produce a customizable, consumer-oriented website that won’t include any evaluations of colleges but will contain what one official described as "more data than ever before." In effect, it will be a ratings system without any ratings. The as-yet-unnamed new system will allow students and others to compare colleges "on whatever measures are important to them," said Jamienne S.
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U.S. Congress Moves to Block Human-embryo Editing
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences says, “You don’t have to be a faith-based bioethicist to recognize that there’s some global responsibility for modifying the human germline.”
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Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?
Cade Massey of the Wharton School comments on interviewers who have similarities with interviewees.
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Historians Take Issue With Apple’s Civil War Games Ban
Carolyn Marvin of the Annenberg School for Communication comments on Apple removing Civil War games in its App Store that included images of the Confederate flag.
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Removing Confederate Symbols Is a Step, But Changing a Campus Culture Can Take Years
It’s hard for Charles K. Ross to shake his first image of the University of Mississippi. He was watching a televised football game, and the Ole Miss stadium was a sea of Confederate-flag-waving fans. Mr. Ross, who was completing a doctorate on African-Americans in sports at Ohio State University, was appalled. "To see that many flags waving — it felt like very hostile territory," he recalls. That was in 1994, two years before he took a job at the university, where he is now an associate professor of history and director of the program in African-American studies.
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So Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion
Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about different types of introversion.
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Don’t Blame Subprime for the Foreclosure Crisis – It’s About Home Values, Period
Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School are featured for researching the impact of subprime mortgages on the financial crisis.
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Penn Receives African American Chamber of Commerce 2015 Corporate Advocate Award
Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli accepted the 2015 Corporate Advocate of the Year Award on behalf of the University from the African American Chamber of Commerce.
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‘Like Déjà Vu All Over Again’: The History of Baseball Metaphors in American Politics, From Abraham Lincoln to Harry Reid
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is cited for using baseball metaphors when discussing political rhetoric.
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Bethune-Cookman President Embraces Challenges, but Not Questions
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the resiliency of historically black colleges and universities.