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A recent editorial in Nature is entitled “Do scientists really need a PhD?” Briefly, the vaunted status of a PhD as the ticket to running interesting research projects and being a part of the global academic enterprise is being questioned. Indeed, in some places, such as the BGI (a genomics institute) in Shenzen, China, the [...]

One of the most frustrating aspects of working in the education field is those persistent performance gaps that seem so resistant to change. Over the decades, there has been no shortage of specific cases where traditionally intractable differences were erased, at least for a time, whether we are talking about the comparatively poor performance of [...]