Low pay, low quality: for decades the nation has been able to school its children on the cheap by exploiting a trapped workforce of educated women. Those
Education Next - June 22, 2003, by Peter Temin
ARE TEACHERS UNDERPAID?
As an economist, I find it difficult to question market outcomes. Goods and services generally cost the market price. Onl... (Read More)
The top 100: interpreting the data - colleges and universities ranked by minority student populations
Black Issues in Higher Education - June 5, 2003, by Victor M.H. Borden,
Pamela C. Brown
The stakes seem to get larger every year. Never before in U.S. history has the quality of our lives as individuals, as communities, and as a societ... (Read More)
Factory invests in advanced degrees - Education and Training - Marvin Windows - Brief Article
Work & Family Newsbrief - June 1, 2003
In Warroad, MN, six miles from the Canadian border, 18 proud graduates in caps and gowns recently got their college degrees.
The degrees were a r... (Read More)
Skill-weighted human capital - Precis
Monthly Labor Review - June 1, 2003
Firm-specific human capital is a frequently encountered concept in labor economics, and, according to Edward P. Lazear's introduction to a recent N... (Read More)
The 'left-wing' media? - Review of the Month
Monthly Review - June 1, 2003, by Robert W. McChesney,
John Bellamy Foster
If we learn nothing else from the war on Iraq and its subsequent occupation, it is that the U.S. ruling class has learned to make ideological warfa... (Read More)
25 trends that will change the way you do business - Fast Forward - related article: Predictions from the past, part 1 and part 2
Workforce - June 1, 2003, by Caroline Louise Cole,
Sarah Fister Gale,
Samuel Greengard,
Patrick J. Kiger,
Carroll Lachnif,
Todd Raphael,
Douglas P. Shuit,
Janet Wiscombe
Workforce-management decisions aren't made with crystal balls. What they do demand is a clear sense of the landscape on the far horizon. As a human... (Read More)
Optimism and stress: an African-American college student perspective
College Student Journal - June 1, 2003, by Debora R. Baldwin,
Lana N. Chambliss,
Kerry Towler
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of life event stress on African-American college students as a function of optimism. One hundred ... (Read More)
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation Heads Hispanic Business List of Top 25 Hispanic Nonprofits
Business Wire - May 8, 2003
Business Editors
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2003
Founder Dionicio Morales Has Been Called "an Urban Cesar Chavez"
for His... (Read More)
To the White House
Psychology Today - May 1, 2003, by Martina Schade,
Ran Elfassy
I would like to say "grow up" to the therapist whose letter in the February 2003 issue claims it's an insult to call Laura Bush a "T... (Read More)
Mom matters: maternal influence on the choice of academic major - 1
Sex Roles: A Journal of Research - May 1, 2003, by Jacqueline C. Simpson
Mothers wield considerable influence over their children. Research indicates that maternal factors affect children's vocational choices (McBroom, 1... (Read More)
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