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Congress Advised of Critical Need to Boost Language Study

The American Academy delivered its final report on the future of language education to the U.S. Congress yesterday, recommending “a national strategy to improve access to as many languages as possible for people of every region, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background.”
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Language Magazine
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The Legal Cultures Project

This project examines the relationship between legal systems and the cultures in which they are embedded, with particular emphasis on the legal profession.

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Eve Blau

Area:
Humanities and Arts
Specialty:
Visual Arts
Academy Member
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The Humanities in American Life: Insights for History

The first national survey on the humanities finds wide agreement about the personal and societal benefits of the humanities, substantial engagement with a range of humanities activities at home and in the workplace, as well as strong support for teaching most humanities…
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The Negro American

Published as a double issue of the Academy’s journal, Dædalus, this study is a comprehensive survey of the problems and the status of Blacks in American society, a topic of great urgency at the time. The resulting volume has been considered seminal in explaining the complexities and implications of racial problems in the United States in the 1960s.

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David B. Grusky

Area:
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty:
Sociology, Demography, and Geography
Academy Member
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Gregory A. Petsko

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Biological Sciences
Specialty:
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
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Cam Cottrill
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How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap

Robert H. Frank writes for the New York Times about income inequality and the justice gap, based on his longer essay in Daedalus issue on "Access to Justice."
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The New York Times
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The Transition from Paper

Using the field of chemistry as a case study, this project probed how the expansion of electronic communications is altering the collection, dissemination, and storage of scholarly information.