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...recent signing ceremony, Chilean Finance Minister Andrés Velasco noted his view about good long-term macroeconomic forecasting: Look around a Harvard PhD classroom. Countries with students in such classes are a good indicator of good performance 10 to 20 years ahead. In the Harvard of 20 years ago, that would have led to forecasting that China and South Korea would perform well. The forecast for Chile already looks good, and it should be better. Neither Chile nor Harvard won the lottery, but, together, we are doing something better—not relying on chance but investing in some...
...Jenkins is known for his charismatic, candid teaching style, 24-7 availability to his students, and outspoken opposition to the traditional response paper, a commonplace assignment at Harvard which he calls a “soul destroying genre.” Jenkins’ refreshingly irreverent classroom methods have made him so popular that he seems to have become one of the main attractions of the course...
...fame beyond his overcrowded freshman class lies in his lofty former positions as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to the Bush White House from 2003-2005 along with textbooks that have sold over one million copies and become the classroom standard. Though his duties in research and teaching keep him busy, Mankiw is uniquely known for maintaining an active online presence in the form...
...school teacher, I knew how bored to tears kids would be in the classroom,” he quips...
...train its teachers - instead simply providing funding for them to be taught in any number of different schools or programs - there is no one pedagogical philosophy that links its teachers other than a military, mission-oriented mind-set. But that common background has translated into effective instruction and classroom management, according to William Owings, a professor of educational leadership at Old Dominion University who has worked on two studies of the program. "Principals and other supervisors have reported that these teachers worked better with problem children, worked better with parents and worked better with colleagues," he says. On the basis...