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...taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so often served in U.S. classrooms. Textbooks and tests support this approach. "Countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely small textbooks that focus on the most powerful and generative ideas," says Roy Pea, co-director of the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. These might be the key theorems in math, the laws of thermodynamics in science or the relationship between supply and demand in economics. America's bloated textbooks, by contrast, tend to gallop through a mind-numbing stream of topics and subtopics...
...Overall, students aren’t as active as they should be here at Harvard,” said Community Health Initiative Co-Director Joseph K. Lee ’07. “Fitness and exercise have huge implications on physical and mental well-being...
...Friday. The event—organized by IMPACT, a Harvard group dedicated to raising funds for grassroots projects in developing countries and cosponsored by the Boston Network for International Development—featured representatives from 17 different organizations, including the American Red Cross and the U.S. State Department. IMPACT co-director, Anna E. Fogel ’07, said that she was excited about the success of the event and praised the Harvard students who organized it. “The turnout was great,” she said. “We were also excited about the diversity...
...many students try to “stick to their own” Kyle, who is “white,” reached out and became a valued and active member of groups like the Black Men’s Forum. Now, Kyle is working as the Co-Director for the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, which he helped start. All of this is to say nothing of his own personal sacrifice and commitment to change, demonstrated last year as he left the United States to return to Guatemala to provide relief for Hurricane Stan, found a development...
...Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs, moderated the standing-room-only event. “What has transpired in North Korea represents the most serious disaster with regard to American national security in the past several years,” said Carter, who is also co-director of the Preventive Defense Project, a collaboration between Stanford University and the Kennedy School of Government. A theme throughout the 90-minute-long session was that the world has failed to take North Korea’s threats seriously. “The dirty secret is that our intelligence...