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...work with them, have conversations with them. I’ve really learned a lot about ethnographic research and its importance.” As a professor here at Harvard, Fullwiley has been active in creating a curriculum that’s broad and interdisciplinary, founding and chairing “The Committee of Social Engagement” in her department. The committee emphasizes an intellectual collaboration with communities, especially African and migrant communities, concerning various health issues. “We want to give back something, and students are actually doing research and political work and coming up with...
...bottom line is that the more antibiotics we use, the higher the risk for something becoming resistant to them," says Dr. Amy Paller, a study author, specialist in pediatric dermatology and chair of the dermatology department at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "The beauty of something like dilute bleach is that one doesn't get resistance...
This issue also features Walter Isaacson's powerful essay making the case for why the U.S. education system needs national standards. Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME who runs the Aspen Institute and is the board chair of Teach for America, argues that on the grounds of fairness and competitiveness, it's high time for national standards in American schools in English and mathematics. It's a compelling argument, and to accompany the story, I wanted to talk to the man who might actually help implement national standards, Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan, a former CEO of Chicago...
...There was a major concern about money funding underage drinking in private settings, where it couldn’t be regulated or monitored,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Tamar Holoshitz ’10, referring to the UC’s party grant program that was discontinued last spring...
...This is significantly less than what the old Party Fund used to be,” Financial Committee Chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’11 said in response to concerns about the strain this plan would place on the Council’s budget in the next school year. “I don’t think restarting this program will threaten our financial solvency...