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...rather than take the next logical step and allow students to take more specific “knowledge-based?? departmental classes instead of vague Core classes, the committee has opted for the opposite tack. The report sets out eight areas of general education with even vaguer titles than our current Core divisions, apparently favoring interdisciplinary superficiality over depth and coherence...
...over a convicted pedophile (played by Jackie Earle Haley) who was just released from prison and who has taken up residence with his mother. At first, this subplot seems curious, but co-writers Field and Tom Perrotta—who also wrote the novel on which the movie is based??tie it all together. The film grips as it closely examines the state of our American suburban culture from the inside out. “Little Children” is Field’s first since 2000’s electrifying “In the Bedroom...
...largest course this spring. In his eulogy, a grateful Ben-Shahar described the tremendous impact that his “casually brilliant” mentor has had on him and countless other students. Ben-Shahar spoke highly of Stone’s “strengths-based?? approach to psychology, which constituted the subject matter of his courses and informed the way he approached his students. “Phil sought to uncover those places where people felt most deeply active and alive,” he said. Former student and current “Positive Psychology?...
Summers and Professor of Law Scott Brewer also noted that empirical evidence on which the Brown decision was partly based??data that said continued segregation would hurt black students’ academic performance and self-esteem—might not be as relevant today...
...major questions facing the General Education committee are whether the structure of the Core is the most efficient one for providing a foundation to the Harvard curriculum and whether the theory of a general body of knowledge—on which the Core is based??is a sound...