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...hasn’t happened once. My roommate has come in and tried to speak to me in Spanish, but I have trouble understanding her accent. And I have casually thrown Spanish words into English conversation, which has been my most successful attempt at speaking Spanish outside of the classroom. (Most often, I say “salud,” in both of its contexts—after someone sneezes or right before drinking...
...looking at inequity as a business problem as well as something to be addressed through philanthropy. We're working on projects like a visual interface that will enable illiterate or semiliterate people to use a PC instantly, with minimal training. Another project of ours lets an entire classroom full of students use a single computer; we've developed software that lets each student use her own mouse to control a specially colored cursor so that as many as 50 kids can use one computer at the same time. This is a big advance for schools where there aren't enough...
Although summer break began in June, some Allston-Brighton students have found themselves back in the classroom, learning about science from undergraduate mentors at the Harvard Allston Education Portal...
...track, speaking directly to unresolved issues of abandonment and unfairness. "I tried hard to have a father/ But instead I had a dad," Nirvana's Cobain sings on In Utero. One of Pearl Jam's biggest hits, Jeremy, is a song about a boy who kills himself in a classroom: "Daddy didn't give attention/ To the fact that Mommy didn't care." Pearl Jam's keen sense of angst has garnered the band comparisons with...
...Business School provides these courses—non-degree programs for mid-career students—in partnership with Chinese universities, but Dominguez said they might pursue courses alone and perhaps offer use of their classroom space for similar programs at other Harvard schools through a "booking system," contingent on changes in Chinese law, which now requires the involvement of a Chinese university in higher education offerings...