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Each week, Rhee gets e-mails from superintendents in other cities. They understand that if she succeeds, Rhee could do something no one has done before: she could prove that low-income urban kids can catch up with kids in the suburbs. The radicalism of this idea cannot be overstated. Now, without proof that cities can revolutionize their worst schools, there is always a fine excuse. Superintendents, parents and teachers in urban school districts lament systemic problems they cannot control: poverty, hunger, violence and negligent parents. They bicker over small improvements such as class size and curriculum, like diplomats touring...
...standardized tests. They held on to those kids for two years, and by the end of third grade, the majority were at or above grade level, she says. (Baltimore does not have good test data going back that far, a problem that plagues many districts, so this assertion cannot be checked. But Rhee's principal at the time has confirmed the claim.) The experience gave Rhee faith in the power of good teaching. Yet what happened afterward broke her heart. "What was most disappointing was to watch these kids go off into the fourth grade and just lose everything," Rhee...
...brightest all over the world. Moreover, if the United States does not significantly change the way that it admits new Americans, it runs the risk of falling behind other industrialized countries with more liberal immigration policies, such as Canada and New Zealand. This is a risk that we simply cannot afford. Our country is long overdue for a real debate on immigration; thanks to the gifts of American democracy, we look forward to starting one in January. Until then, University Hall must shoulder much of the burden of providing for its international alumni...
...regarded by some as the crown jewel of worthless and inapplicable subjects. But literature’s critics would do well to realize that literature is just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean but not how to use them...
...cannot blame everything on how the humanities are taught. The problems in classrooms and sections are most often perpetuated by students themselves, even if they are initiated by professors. Although it may be a failing on the part of our educators to force us to make our arguments within a certain rhetorical framework, we illustrate another failing entirely when we adhere to that framework for the sole purpose of impressing our professors. When section becomes a chance for us to show off rather than exchange ideas with our peers, we are at fault. The important thing at Harvard...