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Bok and John Toner will speak on the topic "College Athletics: Sport or Profession," on November 14 along with sociologist Harry Edwards, who organized the Black athlete protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Unlike past laureates, like George Stigler, the 1982 winner who has been critical of government regulation, Debreu is purely a theorist. "We have never before awarded the prize for contributions of such pure basic research," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee. Notes Bent Hanson, chairman of...
"Teaching is not a profession in America," he said. "The fact is that all of these programs [to improve productivity] have a single thread--the need for good teachers, and a single flaw--the lack of them."
Teacher recruitment remains the root of education problems; students can't be encouraged to go into the teaching profession as specialized teachers or planners if they won't make enough when they get out into the real world to pay back their loans.
The present public outery about the schools has focused upon teachers, stressing their academic inadequacies. Beginning in July 1982, we undertook to investigate ways of attracting nontraditional candidates--persons in their middle years who have had experience in technical fields but who have not previously considered teaching, who had mastered...