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...step in making higher education more available to the general population, a mission worthy of being pursued by the entire University, not just the Extension School. Harvard students have privileged access to the resources that are limited and that Harvard cannot practically make public, like its faculty, classrooms, and libraries. But making non-sensitive course materials more publicly available will cost little and would not in any way disadvantage the Harvard community or alter the classroom dynamic.That means that Harvard professors should make more of their non-publishable course materials available to the public online. Case studies, like books that...
...ALIVEThree years ago, Bartholet set out to capture this idealism. With the help of HLS, Bartholet founded the CAP, the first multi-faceted program in the nation to train students in the field.Based in Pound Hall, CAP offers a policy workshop that brings leading child welfare advocates into the classroom, an academic course to educate students on the legal issues relating to children, and a clinical course where students gain first-hand experience in the field. Recently it hosted a film series on the lives of children and teenagers growing up in prison.Though other top-tier law schools, including those...
...April 16, 2007: Blacksburg, Virginia A gunman kills 33 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech. The gunman later dies...
...Zanzini, a furniture maker in rural São Paulo, managers found that even employees with a high school education could not interpret graphs or follow the manuals they needed to manufacture furniture. The company set aside a room on its shop floor to use as an impromptu classroom whenever a worker on a shift needs help. "It is common to see people who can't read or write or fill in forms," says Zanzini's human-resources director, Leandro Mangili. "They have finished secondary school, but they can't add without a calculator." The most recent study by the Organization...
...white people use the 'N' word behind the backs of black people?†He responded with an emphatic “NO!†He then proceeded to ask me how it felt to be the only black person in a classroom sometimes. From there, our conversation turned into a series of questions, back and forth, as we tried to understand one another’s lives...