Law School Dean Klonoff quoted in The New York Times

Lewis & Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff is quoted in a recent story in the New York Times regarding Google’s efforts to reach all copyright holders through a series of notices being placed in print publications world wide. The outreach effort is a result of a class-action suit by copyright holders regarding Google’s plan to offer all of literature online. Klonoff, the author of a recent law review article titled “Making Class Actions Work: The Untapped Potential of the Internet,” is an expert in class action litigation. He is the senior author of the first and only casebook on class actions and he serves as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute class action project, “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.”

The New York Times A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind

5 March 2009

• Law
• leadership

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Professor Nagel participates in math and democracy symposium

Nancy Nagel, professor of education:

Nagel participated in an international symposium organized by the Institute for Democracy from Mathematics (Oxford) at Windsor Castle in January.  The goal of the symposium was to examine the connection between mathematics teaching and democratic education.  Thirty professors and ambassadors, who represented 11 countries, discussed the problem of the high expectations held for those who excel in mathematics and how this results in lesser expectations for all other students. Presentations at the symposium posed that the most appropriate key to change is through the teaching of mathematics. Implementing Socratic methods of discussion were suggested as one model to encourage mathematical communication and learning. The symposium was  sponsored by the Qatar Foundation.

“I found it highly interesting to listen to presentations and discuss mathematics education with faculty, ambassadors, and the educational representatives for the Prince of Jordan and for the Prince of Wales,” Nagel said. “Discussions with participants from nine countries made it clear that there is widespread concern about mathematics education and of the need to collaborate on successful educational models to help inform each other and better prepare all students.”

4 March 2009

• democracy
• education
• faculty
• mathematics
• symposium

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