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Friday, November 20, 2009
 
 
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Social and Cultural Studies
 

AEI's research is informed by the understanding that freedom and prosperity depend on healthy social institutions. This section of the website gathers together AEI research, books, and events focused on social and cultural studies.

 
In the Spotlight

"Put bluntly, we believe our education system needs to be reinvented. After decades of political inaction and ineffective reforms, our schools consistently produce students unready for the rigors of the modern workplace."

--Frederick M. Hess, Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Improvement, November 2009


Publications


 
 
 
 
Rewriting the Job Description
 
Today's teaching profession is the product of a mid-twentieth-century labor model; we need to rethink what the teaching profession should look like in the twenty-first century.
 
People and Programs, November 13, 2009
 
This issue covers innovation in education, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the new documentary Poliwood, and more.
 
Education Reforms . . . or Union Jobs?
 
Washington spent almost $68 billion more on education in fiscal 2009 than it otherwise would have. What has the economic-stimulus funding actually bought?
 
Revitalizing Teacher Education by Revisiting Our Assumptions about Teaching
 
How might we reimagine the tapestry of teaching, schooling, and preparation to ensure that the changing labor force reinvigorates teaching and learning?
 
 
The Science on Women and Science
 
This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.  
 
The Politically Correct University Problems, Scope, and Reforms
 
Robert Maranto, Richard E. Redding, and Frederick M. Hess, along with nineteen other scholars and practitioners, examine how the politically correct imperative to promote "diversity"--of race, ethnicity, and gender, but not of ideas--has diverted higher education from its true purposes.  
 
Citizenship in America and Europe Beyond the Nation-State?
 
Scholars from both sides of the Atlantic consider how concepts of citizenship affect debates over immigration and assimilation, tolerance and minority rights, and national cohesion and civic culture.  
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
 
 
At this event, various approaches towards educational entrepreneurship will be discussed.
 
 
Please note that the date of the December Bradley Lecture has changed. It will be held on Tuesday, December 8.
 
 
 
PAST EVENTS
 
 
Is the dearth of women scientists the result of gender bias? Or is it the result of different interests, life circumstances, and cognitive strengths?
 
 
Leading higher education researchers and practitioners will present their findings explore the findings’ implications for designing and implementing effective accountability systems for higher education.