Introduction What is a school is always open to debate and in the last decades a significant literature has dealt with the question of the school form, studying it empirically and underlining the historical conditions of school configurations in different education systems (Maulini and Perrenoud, 2005; Meyer and Rowan, 2006; […]
Day: July 27, 2021
Cato T. Laurencin Receives Prestigious Springarn Medal from NAACP
Cato T. Laurencin — a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2021), National Academy of Engineering (2011), and National Academy of Medicine (2004) — is being awarded the Springarn Medal from the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
Infrastructure for a Changing Climate
Local weather transform and its extremes — larger temperatures, rising sea concentrations, a lot more extreme hurricanes — pose a wide variety of threats to U.S. infrastructure. In a June discussion, NAE President John Anderson and former USACE Chief Engineer Thomas Bostick explored these hazards and how the country can […]