From “Around the O”: University of Oregon student Edith Gomez will join Gov. John Kitzhaber, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and others Tuesday morning (April 2) when the governor signs into law the state’s so-called tuition equity bill. Gomez, a general science major at the UO, testified in favor of…
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3/10/13 update: RG story on a program by CS professor Kiki Prottsman. Here’s a link to her Thinkersmith.org program. … For Prottsman — a computer science professor at the University of Oregon, where she earned her master’s in the same discipline in 2011 — this early exposure to computer science and…
My usual pitch to faculty is “Surely there must be something about your research that would interest high school students for 45 minutes?” But just in case I recommend asking one of your undergrads to come along and answer questions about college life. Details here at “Around the O” and the SAIL…
A third of Oregon’s HS students do not graduate on time. Betsy Hammond of the Oregonian has the latest data: Oregon high schools’ on-time graduation rate remained mired at 68 percent for the class of 2012, the same as the year before, when Oregon ranked fourth worst in the nation.…
In the NYT, here. Those economists can argue about correlation/causation and the diff-in-diff. But I’ll just point out that the NYT doesn’t even bother to report the data for HS dropouts. Which would be an astonishing 40% of the students in the Springfield, Oregon school district, just three miles from UO. You can…
Betsy Hammond in the Oregonian: Oregon has the fourth-worst high school graduation rate in the nation, according to the federal government’s most accurate state-by-state report on the topic. Just 68 percent of Oregon high school students in the class of 2011 earned a diploma in four years, according to data…
The NYT raises the question. Several of the NYT panelists mention mentoring and programs to get girls interested in science, as an alternative to heavy handed quotas and hiring preferences. UO has a lot of successful fill the pipeline programs to do that, and is building more. Meanwhile here is some…