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Café 4 with Richard Murnane
July 18th, 2007
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Richard Murnane |
Richard Murnane was visiting thinker for Providence & Beyond's fourth cafe on June 18th 2007. Richard’s presence at Providence & Beyond provides us the opportunity to view sustainability through the lens of education, the impact of computers on education, and critically, our approaches to workforce development.
Richard is an economist who focuses his research on the relationships between education and the economy, teacher labor markets, the determinants of children's achievement, and strategies for making schools more effective. Richard is the author or co-author of many books and papers that are shaping education policy and re-shaping schooling in the USA.
In spring 2004, Princeton University Press published Murnane and Levy's book, The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market. This book shows how the spread of information technology has increased the value of some human skills and decreased the value of others. It also explains how education and training programs need to respond to new labor market realities.
Murnane and Levy’s book provokes answers to two questions, and to probe the implications of the answers for education:
What do computers do better than humans?
What do humans do better than computers?
Richard’s presence at Providence & Beyond has been made possible by:
The Rhode Island Foundation, and
the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council.
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