Most poor people in the United States are white, but the news media generally show them as black, according to research by Martin Gilens, assistant professor of political science and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale...
The College Board’s campaign to offer 10 Advanced Placement classes in every high school is misguided because few of the students enrolled in expanded AP programs will receive passing scores on the exam, a Yale study shows. William Lichten, a fellow at...
The College Entrance Examination Board’s scoring of Advanced Placement (AP) exams is unrealistically inflated, says William Lichten, professor emeritus of physics at Yale and a fellow of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, in a newly-published...
It is hard to figure out what all those polls really show about who is likely to win the November 7 Presidential Election, but help is now available. Yale University political science professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber, with statistics graduate...
Yale Law School will host Illinois Governor George H. Ryan, who will give a lecture on “Until I Can Be Sure: Reflections on the Administration of the Death Penalty” at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 16, in Room 127. The talk is sponsored by the Knight...
Yale University Divinity School, together with the Berkeley Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, will hold a Convocation titled “For the Love of God: Three Hundred Years of Theological Education,” October 1-4. The Convocation,...
Informed discussion can profoundly affect people’s positions on issues of mutual interest, according to an innovative poll conducted at Yale University this weekend. The New Haven Regional Dialogue, a Deliberative Poll conducted at Yale on March 1-3,...
Attorneys, law students and professors from across the country will convene at Yale Law School, November 5-7, for “The Future of Animal Law,” a conference exploring how U.S. law is evolving to reflect Americans’ changing attitudes about animals....
On April 28–29 Yale Divinity School will host a celebration of the public witness and ministry of William Sloane Coffin Jr., a towering figure of political activism and an icon of the socially conscious 1960s. Coffin preached as the University Chaplin...
“The Scientific Buddha: Past, Present, Future” is the theme of this year’s Dwight H. Terry Lectures, which will be presented by Donald S. Lopez, the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of...