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...will not change the fact that some American children receive an education far inferior to the education of other American children—those whose parents happen to make more money. Until the evils of bad policy and lack of funds are addressed within American secondary school education, higher education??and its admissions procedures—can never be free of socioeconomic bias...
...sent a letter to the Beth Israel community in late June announcing Fischer’s resignation and lauding his accomplishments during his time as Chief of Surgery. Levy wrote that Fischer, who received his M.D. from HMS in 1961, restored “first-class surgical care and education?? at Beth Israel by reducing inefficiencies, revamping the operation rooms, and campaigning for error-free patient care...
...achievements, the greatest have been the recognition of the promise and achievements of women, and of multiculturalism. Like all major transformations, they have come at a certain price. In some ways they have deepened the contrast between undergraduate and graduate education??the latter being inevitably more professional—and tempted many to look at the undergraduates as pre-professionals who need to become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler...
...This is just one of many photos adorning his office, and while Stone has spent the last 13 years in higher education??first at Columbia and then as Harvard’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs—Stone’s ties in the world of policymaking still run deep...
...Charles Schultz’s Snoopy captured it about as well as anyone: ‘I love humanity, it’s people I can’t stand.’ Today, the public and political leaders love ‘education??—it’s colleges and universities they can’t stand,” Spencer wrote in 1999, just after arriving at Harvard...