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Another set of spring fellows, for the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, were also announced on Monday and include Doug Ahlers of the marketing agency Modern Media, Sydney Morning Herald opinion editor Julia Baird, University of Mainz communications professor Hans Mathias Kepplinger, New York Times foreign correspondent David Rohde, McGill political science professor Richard Schultz, and political columnist Walter Shapiro...
...have a concentration that’s very broad, it makes it difficult to get that depth,” said Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman after the meeting...
There may even be a biological basis to all this. The human brain continues to grow and change into the early 20s, according to Abigail Baird, who runs the Laboratory for Adolescent Studies at Dartmouth. "We as a society deem an individual at the age of 18 ready for adult responsibility," Baird points out. "Yet recent evidence suggests that our neuropsychological development is many years from being complete. There's no reason to think 18 is a magic number." How can the twixters be expected to settle down when their gray matter hasn...
...Staff writer Abigail M. Baird can be reached at ambaird@fas.harvard.edu...
...make hasty decisions regarding these momentous choices, we are worried that the “shape” of the proposed system—as Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel called it—is too lacking in definition for any substantive discussion. We heartily agree with Baird Professor of Science Gary Feldman who intimated at the meeting, “Unless we know what the purpose of general education is, then we won’t know what qualifies as general education.” The Committee on General Education is still offering vague abstractions when what...