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...combines raw intellectual horsepower and inventiveness with a remarkable work ethic, and he is not afraid to challenge established arguments and ideas, inside and outside the classroom,” Hiscox, Hemel’s thesis advisor and one-time professor, wrote in an e-mail...
...justification had more to do with economic sensibilities than educational philosophies. It was cheaper, and perhaps more efficient, to make schools for males and females together. Once people accepted the (once radical) notion that girls had brains, it was even egalitarian to educate the two sexes in the same classroom with the same teacher...
...schools: They are ignored, patronized, passed over; when teachers give girls personal attention, it is often about outfits and appearance; girls get good grades but poor scores on standardized tests; they have low self-esteem. Latina and African-American girls, in particular, are overlooked and underachieving. The classroom climate is “chilly” for female students, who are being “shortchanged...
...Science Center room 109 creaks opens, and 11 young men shuffle in. Some wear worn baseball caps and faded sweatshirts, others jeans and scuffed loafers. Whispering and rubbing sleep out of their eyes, they slowly settle into their seats, filling only two rows of their long and narrow classroom...
...entered the classroom with the growth of a new academic discipline that gives new meaning to the phrase “heavy reading.” Going beyond the standard medical and biological views of weight and obesity, “fat studies” examines the political and social ramifications of being overweight. And even at Harvard, weight and body image issues are squeezing into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ course catalog. Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) Karen P. Flood, who is acting director of studies for the department, teaches...