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Index Page numbers in italics indicate figures and tables. access to college, 138–39 achievement. See achievement gap; educational achievement; educational achievement, international assessments of achievement gap: in Baton Rouge, 127–31; closing, 13–14; data on, 28; gender and, 32–38, 35; in Houston, 131–37; intelligence and, 44–51; students of color and, 39–44; teachers and, 88–89. See also aptitude: concepts of; study groups Ackerman, Arlene, 64–65 Adelman, Clifford, 36 admissions tests, 40–44, 42 Agassiz, Alexander, 111 Akiba, Motoko, 78 Aló, Richard, 134 Amsterdam, New York, economy of, 170 analytical reasoning, 29, 101, 214–15 Andersson, Laura, 207 The Apprentice (TV program), 13, 161 appropriate technology (AT) movement, 202–3 aptitude: concepts of, 6–7, 30–32, 39–40, 196; intelligence and, 46. See also intelligence Aptitude Revisited (Drew), xiv, 30, 31 Arms, Steve, 193 Aronson, Joshua, 43 assessment/admissions tests, 40–44, 42. See also educational achievement, international assessments of; evaluation Astin, Alexander W., 125, 152 Astin, Helen, 33–34 AT (appropriate technology) movement, 202–3 attrition rates: in colleges, 105–6, 118; definition of, 73 automobile industry, 20–21 Bagayoko, Diola, 127–29, 130–31 Baker, Robyn, 26 Balch, Stephen H., 149 Bardeen, John, 188 Barkan, Elazar, 49 Barres, Ben A., 34 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, LSAMP program in, 127–31 Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, 186 Becker, Gary, 164 Becker, Lois, 158 Belzer, Mike, 96, 97 Benedict, Ruth, 110–11 Bennett Woods Elementary School, 63–64 Berkeley calculus workshop, 113–19 Bernstein, Jeremy, 177 Berryman, Sue, 174–75 bilingual education, 76 Blanchard, Edward, 90 Boas, Franz, 110–11 Bohr, Niels, 16 Bonetti’s law of gambling, 141 Bonsangue, Martin, 11, 13, 120, 122, 131, 132 Boston, economy of, 175 “brains to brawn” ratio for metropolitan areas, 172, 172 236 i n d e x Bramwell, Fitzgerald, 127 Breakthrough High Schools Project, 59 Brown, Bryan A., 42 Brown, Elinor, 127 Brush, Stephen, 37, 38 Bryan, Bonnie, 151 Buddhist economics, 203 Bush, Vannevar, 181, 185 California State Polytechnic Institute calculus workshop programs, 120–23 California State University–Monterey Bay mission statement, 146 Cambridge, Massachusetts, 179–80 CAR (course attempt ratio), 121, 122–23 Cardon-Klein, Jennifer, 96 Carpenter, E., 105 Cezanne pattern of creativity, 48 Chapman, Steve, 40 Chatterjee, Samir, 100 Chenoweth, Karin, 60–62 Churchill, Winston, 57 claims adjusters, 174–75 Claremont Graduate University (CGU) Teacher Education Internship Program, 79–80 Clark, Jim, 200 Coleman, James, 11 Coles, Robert, 93–94 college education: fields of study, changes of, ix; general course requirements, 148–51; liberal arts type of, 139, 201–3; potential of individuals and society, realizing through, 166 college education, value of: first hand examples of, 161–63; in global economy, 20–22, 175–76; lifetime financial benefits, 163–66, 164, 165; nonmonetary, 138–39, 166–67; power, 195 colleges: economic benefits of, 175–76; leadership in, 65–68; quality of, 177. See also college education; community colleges; university research; specific colleges Community College of Southern Nevada, 145–46 community colleges: Houston alliance and, 136–37; role of, 139 Concepcion, Katherine, 96 Connecticut, public education in, 8, 87–88 Cooley, Charles Horton, 99 course attempt ratio (CAR), 121, 122–23 creativity, patterns of, 47–48 critical thinking, 214–15. See also analytical reasoning Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi, 104 Cuellar, Andrea, 83 curriculum reform, 16 Dagnoli, Valerio, 57–58 Darling-Hammond, Linda, 10, 60, 88 democratic society, role of science in, 179–81 Denby, David, 150 Derby, Jill, 151, 153 disciplines, training to, 201–3 diversity: presence of universities in cities and, 176; of researchers, importance of, 17, 91 Dondero, Thalia, 148, 158 Drucker, Peter, 54, 55–57, 76, 77 du Chatelet, Emilie, 37 Dunster, Henry, 67–68 du Pont de Nemours, Pierre S., 21–22 earnings gap, 163–66, 164 Eaton, Nathaniel, 67 ecology of scientific research, 182–83 economic productivity and education, 20–22, 175–76 economy: of Amsterdam, New York, 170; of Boston, 175; inequality in, 195; of Las Vegas, 139–40, 167–68, 170; of Nevada, 142, 156, 163, 167–70; of Oregon, 170–71; of Pittsburgh, 175–76; of Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, 175; of U.S., future of, 1–2, 18–20. See also global economy Edens, Eric, 83 education: bilingual, 76; economic productivity and, 20–22, 175–76; of teachers, 79–80, 152–53; unemployment rates and, 164; win-win, 198–99. See also college education; reform of STEM education; STEM education educational achievement: determinants of, 85–86; historical context...

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