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Ophelia is not the only program doing that work. As long ago as 1986, the Seattle-based Committee for Children introduced its Second Step program, a classroom-based regimen that teaches anger management and impulse control. The program, which has been tested in a remarkable 25,000 schools, is aimed at younger kids--ages 4 to 14--and makes no distinction between boys and girls. But nowadays, says Joan Cole Duffell, the Committee's director of partnership development, girls "are beginning to express anger in ways more similar to boys." Other, independent groups are appearing elsewhere, such as Images...
...descended from the days when Oxford and Cambridge certified the British aristocracy for lives of inherited wealth. A real curricular review in today’s socio-economically diverse and distinctively American Harvard would have encouraged students to achieve their best rather than enjoy dumbed-down requirements. In the classroom as on the field, Harvard should find pride rather than shame in students’ ambition for expertise, and should shape rather than suppress their competitive spirit...
...academic community. Person-to-person interaction within an intellectual environment has long, and rightly, been credited as an indispensable part of a quality university education. During my tenure at Harvard, I learned at least as much, if not more, from discussions with professors and fellow students outside the classroom, in places such as Café Gato Rojo, Café Algiers, and the Science Center’s study rooms, as inside the classroom. Furthermore, the opportunity to personally ask questions of professors and to participate in class discussions inspired in me an enthusiasm for learning that would simply be impossible...
...Forest Director Dr. David R. Foster—whose last name is “coincidentally” an anagram of forest—this forest is a whole lot more than a bunch of trees. “It’s really a 3000-acre laboratory and classroom,” he says. While the Forest is primarily used for research, don’t think there’s no fun to be had. “[We have] an incredible group of 23 dioramas,” explained Museum Director Dr. James...
...film also raises questions about globalization, specifically about how American culture is received abroad. The many cultural and value exchanges between the American females and their Afghan students are humorous and telling. Each hairdresser brings her own ideas of beauty and freedom to the classroom and tells her students to use their power to transform their country. Whether this is imposing superficial American materialism or empowering the Afghan women is not obvious, despite the film’s optimistic overtone...