One of the more ambitious and controversial curriculum development projects in recent times has been the development of the Common Core State Standards. Designed to ensure today’s public school students are college and/or career ready when they graduate from high school, CCSS have proponents as well as critics. In Orstein, Pajak, and Orstein, Robert Rothman […]

In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, one of the main characters that is presented to the readers is Bernard Marx. What this character’s name brings to the mind of the reader, and surely the intention too of the author, is the historical figure Karl Marx who wrote the book Communist Manifesto. In […]

• A General Manger of Harley-Davidson has to decide on the size of a new facility. The GM has narrowed the choices to two: large facility or small facility. The company has collected information on the payoffs. It now has to decide which option is the best using probability analysis, the decision tree model, and […]