Crippled At The Starting Gate

Author : Robert Leslie Fisher
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761849122
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crippled at the Starting Gate written by Robert Leslie Fisher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crippled at the Starting Gate, Robert Leslie Fisher argues that the United States needs an education bill, much like the G.I. Bill passed after World War II, to send more Americans to graduate school in the sciences and engineering. Equally important, the graduate schools need to change their culture not only to recruit more women, African-Americans, and Latinos into science, but to promote them to senior faculty positions. Accomplishing these changes in university science and engineering departments will be challenging since the institutions have a strong propensity to recruit white males similar to the overwhelmingly white male senior faculty. In Making Science Fair (2007), Fisher urged new productivity metrics to assure that more women can advance in science. Now Fisher urges ending burdensome educational practices including requiring women and foreign graduate students to teach under-graduates, which adversely affects both the graduate students and the undergraduates.

Author : Aimée Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473561017
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book But I Flourish written by Aimée Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biblical guide to a life of growth and lasting fruitfulness, this book integrates David's life with Aimée's own journey and the attributes of three 'flourishing trees' found in the Psalms.

Author : Robert Leslie Fisher
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761862625
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Student Scientists written by Robert Leslie Fisher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and under-represented minorities into graduate programs in order to maintain our nation’s prosperity and military strength. Fisher draws on sample data from 1300 male and female respondents from White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian students. He shows how the student culture of graduate schools in science and engineering sees women, Black, and Hispanic students as outsiders and deprives these budding scientists and research engineers of the collaborators they need to succeed in their careers. Fisher argues that we must inspire female, Black, and Hispanic graduate students to believe they can succeed in their careers by (1) changing the student culture in graduate schools’ science and engineering programs to be more inclusive, (2) removing burdensome undergraduate educational duties from graduate students so that they can concentrate on mastering the difficult subject matter of their disciplines, and (3) hiring more women and under-represented minorities as faculty to serve as role models.

Author : Eileen Pollack
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807083445
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Woman in the Room written by Eileen Pollack and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF WASHINGTON POST'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in STEM fields—“beautifully written and full of important insights” (Washington Post). In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university’s first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist. Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer’s institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades. Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates, as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women—and minorities—in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women’s experiences in a way that simple data can’t, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face. The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit, and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.

Author : Joel E. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135840717
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education written by Joel E. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary and secondary education intended to accomplish? This book, which grew out of a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, offers views from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America on the purposes of universal education while considering diverse cultures, religions, and professions. It is the first book in which renowned authors from around the world have proposed, considered, and debated goals of basic and secondary education, engaging in a constructive dialogue on one of the most pressing issues facing education today.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : David Scott
ISBN 13 : 1419627635
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I. T. Wars written by David Scott and published by David Scott. This book was released on 2006 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.T. Wars provides a clear path to proper alignment of technology and business, in achieving best results and ongoing returns. The true challenge is in bringing diverse groups of people together from the business and technical realms, in defining needs and making true delivery of solutions. The Business-Technology Weave is an approach that turns everyone and everything into a responsible forward edge. It includes considerations of people, knowledge, communication, corporate culture, attitudes, relationships, content (information), infrastructure, applications, needs, and expectations. It comprises missions with specific beliefs, values, and standards in service to security and growth. The Weave clears political impairments, helps to dismantle protectionism and jealousy, and breaks down departmental "silos." It opens the way to a future that you define - in preventing the alternative: future's imposition on you. What are the liabilities in today's environment of e-mail, blogs, IMs, downloads, and portable data? Consider: What is being done 'in the name of your domain'? How best to manage content, in avoiding a glut of information? How can staff best utilize the power of the utilities that are delivered to their desktops? What are the new scales of disaster planning, preparedness, prevention, and recovery? What is your organization's role in contributing to the surrounding public safety - in securing your own? I.T. Wars begins with a patient, comprehensive exposure of today's environment and challenges, with equal attention to the Business and IT reader. Whether your organization is public, private, government agency, or association you share in the same concerns: You need a business-driven technology strategy, as well as a business serving one. Now you can develop a vision and pragmatism strong enough to qualify for discussion, planning, and achievement of the best business-technology outcomes.

Author : Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Morning-Exercise at Cripple-gate ... The Third Edition. Ms. Notes written by Samuel ANNESLEY (LL.D., Minister of St. Giles', Cripplegate.) and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William G. Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Conference on Mobility and Transport of Elderly and Handicapped Persons. Third. Proceedings. Final Report written by William G. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca S. Montgomery
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170518
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South written by Rebecca S. Montgomery and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-Era South follows a Civil War orphan’s transformation from a Southside Virginia public school teacher to a nationally known progressive educator and feminist. In this vital intellectual biography, Rebecca S. Montgomery places feminism and gender at the center of her analysis and offers a new look at the postbellum movement for southern educational reform through the life of Celeste Parrish. Because Parrish’s life coincided with critical years in the destruction and reconstruction of the southern social order, her biography provides unique opportunities to explore the links between southern nationalism, reactionary racism, and gender discrimination. Parrish’s pursuit of higher education and a professional career pitted her against male opponents of coeducation who regarded female and black dependency as central to southern regional distinctiveness. When coupled with women’s lack of formal political power, this resistance to gender equality discouraged progress and lowered the quality of public education throughout the South. The marginalization of women within the reform movement, headed by the Conference for Education in the South, further limited women’s contributions to regional change. Although men welcomed female participation in grassroots organization, much of women’s work was segregated in female networks and received less public acknowledgement than the reform work conducted by men. Despite receiving little credit for their accomplishments, by working on the margins, women were able to use the southern movement and its philanthropic sponsors as alternate sources of influence and power. By exploring the consequences of gender discrimination for both educational reform and the influence of southern progressivism, Rebecca S. Montgomery contributes a nuanced understanding of how interlocking hierarchies of power structured opportunity and influenced the shape of reform in the U.S. South.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on the Handicapped
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education for All Handicapped Children, 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on the Handicapped and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: