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A handful of other places -- notably Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut -- are experimenting with a far more radical way to circumvent bureaucracy: hiring a for-profit company to run their schools. "The idea," says Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey, "is to have a company ready for true accountability that offers...
With the publication of their new book, The Bell Curve, Charles Murray '65, a fellow at a prominent conservative think tank, and the late Richard Herrnstein, Pierce professor of psychology, have added a new dimension to the current conversations on race and intelligence.
His credentials are certainly impressive. A professional social scientist, with a degree in Russian history from Harvard (class of 1965) and a Ph.D in political science from MIT, Murray is a Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the prestigious think-tank in Washington, D.C. And his new book, "The...
"It made a kind of difficult day a lot more difficult," said Tom E. Gunderson '98. "I had to find a new building, Pierce Hall, because my math class switched buildings today. It was just a little bit annoying. I'm also recovering from a cold."
Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein died of lung cancer in his Belmont home Tuesday night.