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...them out of pocket. Under the current system, if people are dissatisfied with their plan, they can simply switch insurance carriers. No one denies the moral imperative for reform to provide health-care access to all Americans, but a single-payer system is not the answer. Janet Trautwein, CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Gore Get on the Trail? | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...gather for the annual ritual of conferring degrees, it seems appropriate to reflect on what we are really conferring. The answer is simple—Harvard diplomas—but explaining what it represents is not so simple...

Author: By Eric Mazur | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Education | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...year I asked my students some very basic conceptual questions and discovered that they were unable to answer them. By comparing my students’ performance on various types of problems, I came to the agonizing conclusion that many students were simply making it through the course by rote memorization. Beyond the familiar context, they were unable to apply even the most basic principles. Suddenly the illusion of being a good teacher was shattered...

Author: By Eric Mazur | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Education | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...problem is that lecturing does not provide much, if any, opportunity for students to assimilate the information presented. And so students concentrate on being able to answer the type of questions they will be examined on. Yet education is more about asking questions than giving answers. Upon receiving the Nobel prize, Isidor Rabi attributed his becoming an inquiring scientist to his mother, who would always ask him after school: “Izzy, did you ask a good question today...

Author: By Eric Mazur | Title: Reflections on a Harvard Education | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...January 2005, the high court finally gave an answer: enhancements required by the federal guidelines also violate the right to a jury trial, but the constitutional fix is to make the guidelines optional. So a judge can use his traditional discretion to determine sentences, while consulting the guidelines, and so long as the sentences are reasonable, they won't violate the Sixth Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Libby's Sentence Was So Tough | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

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