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(11/07/13 9:30pm)
The Sports Trading Club, an English-based sports betting and investment organization, is being challenged over its alleged misattribution of promotional statements to former University economics professor Peter B. Kenen.
(11/07/13 6:27pm)
Data processing played a pivotal role in the Obama campaign’s ability to target and persuade potential voters in the 2012 election, former campaign data director Ethan Roeder argued in a lecture on Thursday evening.
(11/06/13 9:01pm)
Harnessing the volatile effects of globalization will demand collaborative changes to the bureaucratic system that currently governs international diplomacy, former head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy argued in a lecture on Wednesday evening.
(11/05/13 8:22pm)
In a race that ended as lopsided as it started, Republican incumbent Chris Christie defeated his Democratic challenger, New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono, by a margin of 60.5 percent to 38 percent with 98 percent of precincts reportingin the Nov. 5 general election to win a second term as governor, the AP reported.
(11/04/13 9:52pm)
When Franklin Odo ’61 GS ’75 bickered the Ivy Club, he alluded to the beaches in his native Hawaii and hinted that he had surfed its waves.
(11/04/13 3:18pm)
Faculty, administrators, staff and researchers affiliated with the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory gave largely to New Jersey State Sen. Barbara Buono during the state gubernatorial campaign, which will end with the general election on Tuesday.
(11/04/13 2:07pm)
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University's top alumni honors at Alumni Day onFeb. 22, the University announcedMonday.Sotomayor will be given the Woodrow Wilson Award and Rawlings will be awarded the James Madison Medal.
(11/04/13 11:59am)
The movement to reform the American education system is realizing the opposite of what it intends to do, Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93 and New York University research professor, argued in a lecture on Monday evening.The lecture focused on Ravitch’s new book, “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools,” in which she takes issue with several commonly-held ideas regarding public and private schools.Ravitch said that reformers who advocate cutting budgets, closing schools and firing teachers and staff aren’t aware of the consequences of these changes.“The so-called reform movement is failing. Nothing that it does works,” Ravitch said.Reformers think that it would be a good idea to get rid of public schools, but in reality, they are not as big of a problem as they believe, Ravitch said. Test scores and graduation rates are at their highest points in history, while dropout rates are at the lowest that they’ve been, she added.She argued that reformers are not focusing on the real issues: poverty and segregation.“The promise of American education is equality of educational opportunity,” Ravitch explained. In order to improve the performance of black and Hispanic students, she advocates placing a greater focus on creating smaller class sizes, greater economic opportunities and desegregating schools.Ravitch added that reformers are destroying the teaching profession. She cited a statistic that half the teachers in America have less than a year of experience.She also criticized the movement to evaluate and, in some cases, pay teachers based on students’ test scores.“You can’t identify great teachers by student test scores,” Ravitch said, arguing that such test results are invalid and unstable. Throughout her lecture, she emphasized that too great a focus is placed on test scores.According to Ravitch, test scores are only accurate representations of the achievement gap that exists between kids who have more advantages growing up as opposed to those who do not. She called the United States the most over-tested nation in the world.“The purpose of education should not be to raise test scores,” Ravitch said, arguing instead that the purpose ought to be to enable students to make wise decisions as adults.Ravitch denounced a practice she calls “deselection,” which she defined as the idea that the more teachers who are fired, the better the schools will be. Ravitch argued that schools should instead hire teachers carefully and then support and respect their employees.Ravitch also refuted the idea, which she attributed to many members of the reform community, that private schools perform better than public schools. Rather, Ravitch said that private schools focus solely on “risk management.”“If you have a portfolio, you get rid of the losers,” she explained. For reformers, this means closing schools and getting rid of the struggling students.In reality, Ravitch argued, children start life with different advantages and disadvantages.“The achievement gap exists before the first day of school. It starts at home where kids are exposed to different opportunities, vocabulary and learning experiences,” Ravitch said, arguing that it is important to level the playing field for entering students in order to improve their performance.The lecture took place in McCosh 50 and was sponsored by the Walter E. Edge Lecture Series.
(11/04/13 10:29am)
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings III GS ’70 will be presented with the University's top alumni honors at Alumni Day onFeb. 22, the University announcedMonday.
(11/03/13 7:23pm)
Senior Operations Manager for Butler/Wilson Dining Services Donald DeZarn’s bid for state senator will come to a close tomorrow when voters of the 14th Legislative District head to the polls. While his opponents haveprimarily focused their campaigns on economic issues, DeZarn has distinguished himself from the other candidates by making the legalization of medical marijuana a centerpiece of his platform.
(11/03/13 7:20pm)
In a race that has remained largely non-competitive, Republican incumbent Chris Christie will face off against Democratic New Jersey State Senator Barbara Buono on Tuesday to become the state’s next governor.
(10/29/13 5:42pm)
Members of Queer Nation disrupted a panel discussion led by Russian officials promoting investment in Moscowat the Princeton Club of New Yorkon Mondaymorning.
(10/28/13 7:18pm)
Members of Queer Nation disrupted a panel discussion led by Russian officials promoting investment in Moscowat the Princeton Club of New Yorkon Mondaymorning.
(10/27/13 1:12pm)
Former University Executive Vice President Mark Burstein was formally installed as Lawrence University’s 16thpresidentSaturdayafternoon at the Lawrence University Memorial Chapel in Appleton, Wis.
(10/24/13 8:40pm)
Senator Ted Cruz ’92, a national debate champion as a Princeton undergraduate, recently put his award-winning speaking skills into practice on the Senate floor, delivering the fourth-longest speech in Senate history.
(10/22/13 4:30pm)
With the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve slated to expire in January, former professor and chair of the economics department Ben Bernanke’s plans for life after government are still unclear.
(10/21/13 9:55am)
After delivering a lecture called “Campaign Bootcamp: Leadership Lessons from Candidates on the Trail and Women on the Run” Friday night, author and activist Christine Pelosi —daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — spoke to The Daily Princetonian about her childhood growing up in a political family, the goals driving her work and a new book coming out next year.
(10/21/13 9:44am)
Governor Chris Christie announcedMondaymorning that he will drop his challenge to a state Supreme Court decision permitting same-sex marriage, effectively making New Jersey the 14th state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.
(10/20/13 9:20pm)
David Petraeus GS ’87 said on campus Saturday that fracking could be a solution to U.S. energy challenges for the next 100 years, according to attendees.
(10/20/13 12:02am)
Economics professor Paul Krugman explained the danger of attempting to reduce budget deficits in a time of recession in a lecture for the "Many Minds, Many Stripes" alumni conference on Friday afternoon.