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Silver Schools’ Superintendent Search - Hobbs’ Will Hawkins maintains focus on teacher development Editor’s note: This is the third of four profiles of candidates for the next superintendent of the Silver Consolidated Schools. William D. “Will” Hawkins, one of four finalists for the position of Silver Schools superintendent, is a dynamic communicator whose 23-year career began with classroom teaching of English and history, which led to serving as a principal and eventually a transition to administrative posts. Hawkins now holds the position of assistant ...

The World's Fair is pleased to offer the following discussion about Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California (MIT Press, 2008), with its author Christopher Henke. Henke is an assistant professor of sociology at Colgate University, an STS scholar, and a contributor to Colgate's environmental studies program. Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, says its publisher, "explores the ways that science helped build the Salinas Valley and California's broader farm industry." In doing so, Henke provides an account of "how agricultural scientists and g...