New Blog 3: Help With Algebra

Saturday 1 December 2012

Help With Algebra

Hacker is an emeritus professor of political science at Queens College, City University of New York, and a co-author of “Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It.” He is clearly a well-intentioned individual whose academic discipline, political science, has little use for mathematics outside of statistics. (So of course, Hacker feels that although other fields of math are largely unimportant, statistical training should remain in the curriculum.)