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...Harvard would like [Google’s] services, we would be happy to provide them,” said Rajen Sheth, a product manager at Google. Google has “hundreds of schools” signed up for its ”Apps for Education?? program, which supplies Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Talk customized to the schools’ specifications, according to Sheth. Microsoft’s platform, “Windows Live @edu,” is currently being used by five universities, and 57 institutions have enrolled worldwide, according to Nikki Reed, a spokeswoman...
...court’s decision in the two cases—Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education??may overturn its landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
...Glimcher, Nehamas’ mother, says, “I sometimes wonder about the reasons, like you need to have a good education to make a lot of money. For me it goes without saying that education goes well beyond that. It’s very good that education??s become very important, you sometimes wonder why people are valuing...
...third movement he suggested was more contested. Hyman spoke of how the German model of a liberal education??independent departments working independently—was irremediably outdated today. Many significant areas of knowledge were simply not being conveyed to students because departments would not extend themselves beyond conventional boundaries...
...unless they analyze sociology and psychology along with history and political science. Likewise, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute brings together lawyers and public policy experts with geneticists and biologists. The benefits of interdisciplinary research have all been widely noted, but Hyman—and the Task Force on General Education??took it a step further when they emphasized interdisciplinary teaching in undergraduate liberal education...