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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...
...previous system, special needs students were constantly removed from the room to meet with outside help and were therefore never properly integrated into the classroom environment, Bradshaw explained...
...noted that the continual movement of the special needs students in and out of the classroom caused the school to sometimes feel “like Grand Central Station” and that since the implementation of co-teaching “there have been a lot less doors slamming in the hallways...