The Path Not Studied Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/24-4/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:06:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png The Path Not Studied Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/24-4/ 32 32 Building a Wider Skills Net for Workers https://issues.org/lerman/ https://issues.org/lerman/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/lerman/ The skills of workers in the United States are critical to their own economic performance as well as to that of society at large. But today, despite the nation’s generally healthy economic… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lerman/feed/ 0 It’s about More than Money https://issues.org/p_feller/ https://issues.org/p_feller/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_feller/ Presidential Science Advisor John Marburger’s call for a new science of science policy has led the National Science Foundation to initiate a program to support the development of more rigorous empirical and … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/p_feller/feed/ 0 Research Funding via Direct Democracy: Is It Good for Science? https://issues.org/p_riordan/ https://issues.org/p_riordan/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/p_riordan/ On November 2, 2004, California voters passed the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Bond Act of 2004, popularly known as Prop 71. Its purpose and intent was to, among other things:… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/p_riordan/feed/ 0 Connecting Jobs to Education https://issues.org/realnumbers-25/ https://issues.org/realnumbers-25/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/realnumbers-25/ Contrary to popular opinion, attaining at least a bachelor’s degree is not the only, nor in all cases the best, route to success. Nor is it the norm. Most jobs do not… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/realnumbers-25/feed/ 0 A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy Independence https://issues.org/alexander/ https://issues.org/alexander/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/alexander/ In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Sen. Kenneth McKellar, the Tennessean who chaired the Appropriations Committee, to hide $2 billion in the appropriations bill for a secret project to win World… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/alexander/feed/ 0 Community Colleges under Stress https://issues.org/zeidenberg/ https://issues.org/zeidenberg/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/zeidenberg/ It is now generally recognized that a high-school degree is no longer sufficient to achieve a family-supporting income in today’s society. Society is increasingly divided by income, and income is highly correlated… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/zeidenberg/feed/ 0 Archives – Summer 2008 https://issues.org/archives-43/ https://issues.org/archives-43/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/archives-43/ VIK MUNIZ, Carcere VII, The Drawbridge, after Piranesi, Cibachrome photograph, 42 × 32 inches, 2002.
Carcere VII, The Drawbridge, after Piranesi
Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz, who often uses common but ephemeral materials,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/archives-43/feed/ 0 Strategies for Today’s Energy Challenge https://issues.org/bingaman/ https://issues.org/bingaman/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bingaman/ The energy challenge the United States faces today is different from and more encompassing than what it encountered even a few years ago. Until fairly recently, at least in Washington, the energy… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/bingaman/feed/ 0 The Crisis in Adult Education https://issues.org/bosworth/ https://issues.org/bosworth/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/bosworth/ During the past several decades, a dramatic increase in the educational attainment of the U.S. labor force has helped boost worker productivity and fuel national economic growth. However, the demographic forces that… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/bosworth/feed/ 0 College admissions and exclusions https://issues.org/br_ehrenberg/ https://issues.org/br_ehrenberg/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000 http://dev.issues.org/br_ehrenberg/ A nation’s competitiveness in a global knowledge-based economy depends on the education levels of its population. However, the United States no longer leads the world in college completion rates. Inequalities in college… Read More

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