Hampshire College

About: Hampshire College is a education organization based out in Amherst Center, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Genetic programming & Population. The organization has 461 authors who have published 998 publications receiving 40827 citations.

Goals 2000: Disastrous Unintended Consequences

Abstract: "Goals 2000: Educate America Act" aims to, among other things, increase the high school graduation rate to at least 90% and eliminate the graduation rate gap between minority and non-minority students. However well intentioned, this goal is doomed to failure. Powerful systemic forces converge to stabilize the high school graduation rate at about 75% where it has been since 1965 and where no traditional national policy will be able to advance it very much. Even if education policy could succeed in increasing the rate to 90% or beyond, undesirable consequences of potentially great magnitude, especially for the targeted minority groups, would result.

Suppression in object-based attention

Abstract: This study examines suppression in object-based attention in three experiments using an object-based attention task similar to Egly, R., Driver, J., & Rafal, R. D. (1994. Shifting visual attention ...

Pricing and Selling

Abstract: After purchasing a supply of goods, the retailer assigns prices to the merchandise to sell it at a profit to the consumer This chapter discusses the mechanics and terminology of this operation Price setting is a two-way street One approach is to start from the cost of a product and to add its expenses and the net profit Markup is the amount that is added to the cost of an item to arrive at the sales price or the original retail price For a single item, the price would vary as time passes Any rise in the price after a markdown, up to its original retail price, is termed a markdown cancellation Gross profit is the excess of the sales price over the cost of an item The gross profit can be calculated for a firm's total sales or item by item On a single product sold at its original retail price, gross profit will equal the markup If a product is sold below the cost, it would result in a gross loss Net profit is the excess of gross profit over operating expenses