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...focus on social enterprise is what we really need to focus on,” said Josy W. Hahn, a first-year doctoral student at the School of Public Health. “We focus too much on the existing institutions in the classroom...
...campus, near Madaba, a farming town about 30 miles (48 km) south of Amman, Jordan's capital. Yes, there are boarding-school staples like family-style meals at round tables, school-wide meetings, blue blazers and khaki pants. There's also the rather revolutionary belief that the classroom should be an intimate place that fosters discussion and critical thinking rather than rote memorization, which is the default teaching method in much of the region. But more important is the school's effort to create an environment where learning takes place outside the classroom - through athletics, community service, honor codes...
...Such a core, through its structure and content, cultivates, among other things, the virtues of accurate reading and informed argument. These virtues transcend partisan differences and will serve students well not only inside and out of the classroom but in life beyond the campus...
...time for the digital students to take risks with their photographs instead of having to concentrate on correcting the color, as film students have to. In addition, the digital camera students will be able to apply the skills from the class more directly to their lives outside the classroom, she says. Chris Killip, professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, waves away any suggestions that digital photography is any less of an art than art photography. “Digital has taken over the world of photography,” he says. “We had to do this sooner...
...purchasers and readers of self-help books. In the years since the Larry Summers/innate differences fall-out, a number of books have come out exploring not only male tendencies towards the sciences, but also female tendencies towards verbal skills and communication.And the research is carrying over into the classroom. Single-sex classrooms, once proposed with the aim of improving females’ scores in math, have now been lauded as also improving boys’ engagement with books by allowing teachers to modify content for gender. All sorts of suggestions have been put forth for why girls read more than...