Decent work: what matters most and who can make a difference?

"What difference can a student make?".

Learning: what matters most.

Dr Jensen is a leader known nationally and internationally for her scholarly contributions related to expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and educational theory and application. Although her vision and work often center on physical therapy, she reaches beyond the profession to have an impact on health professions and higher education more broadly. She has served on several...

Measuring What Matters Most

Jeffrey Lucas Deputy Director, Baldrige National Quality Program What happens when a K‐12 school system sets a goal beyond meeting the minimum state and federal standards for student achievement, and instead commits to “Igniting a Passion for Learning”? In the case of Iredell‐Statesville Schools (I‐SS) in North Carolina, a 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient with over 22,000...

What differences make a difference?

Four years ago The Hastings Center initiated a “pluralism project.” That project gave the Center staff a chance to explore one swath of the theoretical literature concerning how members of democratic regimes ought to think about and respond to the differences among themselves. Much of that literature, produced by philosophers like Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, and John Kekes, is wonderfully ...

Endmarkers can Make a Difference

We show that the nonemptiness problem for two-way automata with only one endmarker over unary alphabets is complete for nondeterministic logarithmic space. This should be contrasted with the corresponding problem for two-way automata with two endmarkers, which is known to be NP-complete.