Charged Up in Michigan
An article in Sunday’s New York Times magazine, focused on lithium-ion battery makers in Michigan, does a nice job of laying out the many factors involved in creating manufacturing jobs for Americans....
View ArticleA Critical Media Moment? CNN on Race
We have to be grateful that CNN is drawing attention to issues of race in Silicon Valley. Or do we? The cable network’s documentary “The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley” airs tomorrow, and if it...
View ArticleWith Friends Like This…
An opinion column by Caitlin Flanagan in the NYTimes today, entitled “Hysteria and the Teenage Girl,” maps out for us why it is that girls experience “hysterical reactions” to stress more often than do...
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Not just STEM, or, Why the American Economy Needs Humanities Majors
Poster from Federal Art Project/WPA This blog usually focuses on opening the door to science occupations for groups traditionally under-represented in those fields. Obviously, one aim here is the...
View ArticleVirtue Rewarded: The World According to Brooks
Give me some credit: For some months now I have successfully resisted the impulse to respond to David Brooks’ conservative writings about economic opportunity in America. His logic is so...
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Mind The Skills Gap
Edie Fraser, meet Adam Davidson. Fraser, an expert on human resource issues in STEM-dependent industries, is the author of “The Root of Real Jobs: Filling the STEM Talent Gap.” This piece appeared in...
View ArticleBeware the Algorithm: STEM Recruitment Meets Big Data
Big Data, it seems, is suddenly very big. Among the social scientists with whom I spend time, newly massive, deep-tissue-massaged bodies of data have found currency. As a research tool, the emergent...
View ArticleRank, and then, File
A compelling piece appeared on the American Physical Society News website a while ago that just came to my attention. (Thank you, Michael Fisher!) Author Casey W. Miller, an associate professor of...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These…: Why “The Triple Package” is So Disturbing
Like many folks who read Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld’s lengthy piece in the NYTimes today, I’m aghast. The piece purports to be a probing and innovative exploration of “success” in America, following...
View ArticleJudith Shulevitz’ Scary Ideas
Long time, no blog. But I want to make a quick return to the fray here because I find Judith Shulevitz’ column in the New York Times yesterday, “Hiding from Scary Ideas,” and the many favorable...
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