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...behind. At the Shartashky open-air market in Yekaterinburg, Victor Shkola, 66, hovering by his collection of wrenches, screwdrivers and metal widgets, says he can barely pay the rising rent and utility bills, which eat up about $75 of his $95 monthly pension. On a good day, he can earn $8 from sales of his hardware, but that's not enough. Putin this year has promised to boost spending on social services, and the Kremlin has raised some state pensions. But in the market's food section, Gulfara Shakhulovna, 59, isn't impressed. She's worried about the health...
...skill, DIR activities tend to include complex social interactions that build many skills at once. In a classroom for 5-to-9-year-olds, eight kids sit in a circle playing a game in which they pick an activity card and a card showing a classmate's face. Children earn cheers as they perform the designated activity with that classmate (giving Olivia a high five, hugging Alex). Instead of tangible rewards, shouts of encouragement, a sense of accomplishment and what Greenspan calls the "warm, pleasurable feelings" that come from human interaction serve as a reinforcement for learning. In a classroom...
Harvard College graduate Rajesh Kottamasu ’02 boasts of a different kind of achievement. While his classmates trek the world with the Peace Corps, earn six figures on Wall Street, or pass the bar exam, Kottamasu has set up the “Daily Museum of Amazement” in his town of Somerville, Mass...
Students can earn an Extension School degree without ever being taught by Harvard College professors.*[CORRECTION APPENDED...
According to Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension Michael Shinagel, "to the best of the knowledge of our Extension undergraduate degree program staff, no one has earned an Extension School degree without having been taught by a Harvard College professor as well as Harvard instructors among their 52 credits." A May 8 news article had stated that students could earn an Extension School degree without being taught by a Harvard professor...