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Writing is on the wall

Social science has historically been locked in an uneasy relationship with the so-called ‘demands’ of time. If the three preceding industrial revolutions had their own heretics beginning with such thinkers as Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and others, social science is unlikely to customise itself according to the ‘demands’ of...
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Law professor discusses DeVos comment on black universities

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a staunch supporter of privatizing education, recently pointed to historically black colleges and universities as an example of “school choice” being successful. But UO law professor Carrie Leonetti says in an op-ed piece that black educational institutions actually came from policies explicitly preventing students...
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