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Conversational critics of public education are willing to express dissatisfaction with schools, but few can be prodded into proposing and expounding upon reform ideas. Suggest taking on a classroom for a year to them and you'll probably elicit a predictable response: hearty laughter as if the proposal was a joke. Even though education should be an all-encompassing investment, one in which every citizen nurtures, encourages and excites children by the process of learning, parents and the public at large rarely have a meaningful reciprocal relationship with the public school environment...
Judges took into account grades, academic awards, leadership roles and public service, placing the most weight on student's abilities to use their talents outside the classroom and laboratory...
There's no doubt that the film played toward every nerd stereotype and town-gown conflict it possibly could. The MIT math professor who discovers Hunting's genius is your basic arrogant academic who can't believe that the boy who sweeps his classroom can also solve equations. Hunting's girlfriend, a Harvard senior headed for med school, is rich, privileged, and housed in an ivy-covered dorm which could be any of Harvard's undergraduate houses...
Most of the interaction that occurs between students of different races is in the classroom. Only rarely do all the black, Asian-American, white and Latino students sit together in a Moral Reasoning section or a history tutorial. Sometimes this is due to a lack of minorities in a particular class. But the issue of race also seems to be erased at the classroom door. When I am sitting in class with others and we're both reading the sourcebook, trying to understand the material, these connections overwhelm racial differences. The shared academic experience, in the pursuit of common knowledge...
...when we step outside the classroom and enter our dining halls that race becomes a greater and more dynamic concern. In my experience, black students tend to socialize apart from white students. Every year, it seems, a majority of black first-years sit together at the same table. Although football and hockey tables are also present, the sight of an all-black table seems to engender the most questions, comments and stares. What is it about an ethnic group deciding to eat together that makes others feel uncomfortable...