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...Kate Betts on the Best from the Milan shows Giorgio Armani goes back to his basic navy blue, while a young fashion talent reinterprets Burberry
...Kate Betts on the Best from the Milan shows Giorgio Armani goes back to his basic navy blue, while a young fashion talent reinterprets Burberry
Unlike secondary schools, institutes of higher education are not designed to provide their students with the basic knowledge for everyday life. If the federal government feels that young Americans are being minted with bachelor’s degrees without basic literacy and quantitative skills, it should perhaps reconsider its massive funding cuts to school districts across the country before suggesting that colleges take up the slack. Colleges, instead, are charged with cultivating broad understandings of the world and producing citizens who are productive and curious members of our society. Little of this, however, can be tracked by an expensive...
...offering strengthened civics courses in high school. After all, it is in high school that most students undertake their most comprehensive study of our nation’s history and institutions. Students should leave high school with a thorough and conceptual understanding of our nation’s basic political and governmental landscape, not a list of names and events to have memorized. College is a time to expand the bounds of one’s personal knowledge by exploring a variety of complex subjects in depth; it is not a time to teach basic civics. Mandating civics instruction...
...home a living wage and workplace conditions can be adequate.But the consortium’s board has clarified that the endorsement is a recommendation, not an obligation. “It’s not a requirement that any school affiliated with the WRC adopt any policy beyond the basic code of conduct,” said an assistant director of policy and communications at the WRC, Nancy E. Steffan.Indeed, eight months after the board’s endorsement, Harvard has yet to sign on to the DSP.“We’ve been following the developments...