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...said that President James Bryant Conant '14 took the lead of a regional university and helped to make it a national university. Summer's task is to take the leading national university and help make it a truly international university. That means a new view of the classroom, of the research process and of Harvard's links to the broader world...
...large chunks of time--making it more likely that they would actually become adults. Such a world would encourage home-schooling, for instance, by easing the economic burden for parents who choose to stay home and teach. It would offer a more flexible, decentralized system of education, balancing classroom time with, say, vocational training and programs allowing kids to work under and alongside adults in local workplaces. It would be a world where adolescents were integrated into society, not ghettoized in the local high school...
...economic ladder, value high achievement as much as anyone. Our problem is not cultural. It's political and psychological. Too many of us have forgotten that we are still engaged in a struggle for racial redemption that involves, among other things, beating whites at their own game in the classroom as well as on the playing field. We've got to start hitting the books with the same passion and moral courage that we used to overcome slavery and segregation. Our honor demands it. And so does our history...
Zittrain said he is interested in developing ways to use technology in the classroom...
...addition to sponsoring academic research, Murphy said the center will work on current educational issues, recommending curriculum changes to help boys and girls and giving seminars for classroom teachers on how to work with boys and girls...