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Benton plans to study the impact of school rating systems on classroom instruction during his time at Harvard. As for his job at the Dallas Morning News...
...three concerns of parents who withdrew their children centered on school quality: 32 percent questioned the strength of the academics, 11 percent cited safety and classroom management issues, and 10 percent pointed to sub-par teaching instruction...
...Some of the attrition is due to the nature of science itself. For me, the joy of science in high school was its rigorous approach to knowledge, its entertaining parlor tricks, and a few spectacular teachers. At Harvard, I learned that science has less to do with classroom stink bombs and more to do with performing tedious lab work, deciphering tedious journal articles, and pouring out dozens of lines of tedious algebra. The basics are difficult to learn. Even the smallest headway in research requires enormous personal dedication. And, of course, the field is inherently cumulative, so advanced study necessitates...
...found that I could write 24 pages in under 24 hours and still do well. I learned that a lot of the education you get at college happens outside the classroom. And I learned how to deal with failure, even if most Harvard students don’t understand the meaning of that word until reaching adulthood...
...realized that the criteria I’d been using to judge my education at Harvard were all off the mark. Even if the lessons that will be most valuable in the next chapter of my life have been those I’ve learned outside the classroom, my time at Harvard has been well spent. My only regret is that I didn’t learn the importance of taking risks earlier. That’s probably the most important lesson...