In the past twenty-five years, egalitarian political philosophers have acknowledged the importance of injecting personal responsibility into egalitarian theory. In brief, the ethically attractive objective is to equalize opportunities for desirable conditions, such as health and earning capacity, rather than equalizing health status or earning capacities, across the members of a society. I prop...

Policy reforms and rising income inequality transformed educational and economic opportunities for Americans approaching midlife in the 1990s. Rising income inequality may have reduced mobility, as income gaps increased between rich and poor children. Against the e!ects of rising inequality, Civil Rights reforms may have increased mobility, as opportunities expanded across cohorts of black stud...

A medical educator has needs that are specific to educators and needs that are common to all medical faculty members. An educator needs time to perform educational duties; space to carry out educational activities; and money to buy time, space, and other resources. Just as important as time, space, and money are to the success of an educator is having an infrastructure that supports the educato...

Educational consortiums possess significant academic and financial benefits. A faculty shortage has had an impact on subspecialty educational programs including nurse anesthesia. This column describes a collaborative "consortium" model of 3 individual nurse anesthesia educational programs located in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. The Philadelphia Area Nurse Anesthesia Educational Program...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the threats and opportunities that information and communication technology (ict) has created with regard to sexual inequality. research shows that the education of ict, which is concentrated on women, directly increases their media knowledge and modifies inequalities created mainly by the family and the educational system in the socialization process, pr...

Secular variation in the heritability of educational attainment are proposed to be due to the implementation of more egalitarian educational policies leading to increased equality in educational opportunities in the second part of the 20th century. The action of effect is hypothesized to be a decrease of shared environmental (e.g., family socioeconomic status or parents' education) influences o...