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Today’s high schools and universities abound in courses geared towards teaching people “how to think.” Science, math, and English courses focus not on teaching specific material but on “approaches” and “methodologies.?...
It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps. With Wikipedia and Google, our generation is poor in knowledge, specialized or otherwise. While this would seem to be a weight off our minds, it also makes our thinking less profound. Unlike prior generations, who wiled away the hours...
Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy announced early yesterday morning that this year will be their last as the gatekeepers of the College’s most phonetically unfriendly House. The announcement, although not entirely unexpected, was met with a wave of nostalgia from students close to the...
Dan Bednarz of Energy & Healthcare Consultants in Pittsburgh contends that the medical industry needs to rethink how it uses energy and, more important, figure out how it can get by on less - something that will become an inevitability when oil prices start creeping up again. Last summer's high fuel...
Since teachers at schools with high MCAS scores are more likely to devote classroom time to other programs, it is not surprising that the schools that continue to work with CityStep tend to be better off relative to the rest of the district.