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...sent the screenplay, which I read first, and then I read the novel. It's interesting, for instance on The Ice Storm [1997], I started reading the novel and it was so different, I could tell that Ang Lee's concept of our story was going to be somewhat austere, and also somewhat a comedy of manners. The book was just so detailed, I actually didn't wind up reading it. But with A Map of the World I just couldn't put it down, it was just so gripping...
Professors teaching together is a nice concept. Students benefit from watching great minds duke it out over contemporary and academic issues, often hearing first-hand the opposing positions of an academic debate. According to the Chair of the Economics Department, Professor Jeffrey Williamson, co-taught classes actually encourage professors to perfect their teaching styles. Williamson said that junior faculty especially benefit from co-teaching courses with senior faculty members...
What is most troubling is the concept of "the race card." Race is not something that can be shuffled and dealt like a game of Go Fish. To bring up race in this context diminishes the saliency of the issue. We live in a society in which race is still a real and immediate problem. Of course there are naysayers, who respond that we now live in a color-blind society in which issues of identity, most specifically race and ethnicity, are no longer relevant...
...reach this goal, Mazur relied on the concept of peer instruction, a philosophy of teaching large groups of students he has developed over the past decade at Harvard. Rather than just having the professor lecture, peer instruction actively involves students by breaking up brief "mini-lectures" with multiple-choice questions on the topics just covered...
...Mazur's concept of peer instruction would still be a fancy term instead of reality if it were not for the interactive Personal Response Systems...