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...said Salwa N. Muhammad, a masters student at HGSE. “I think he did a good job of explaining Sesame Street from an international perspective. It was very current.” The future lies with figuring out the learning behaviors of the Baby Einstein generation, children who never knew a world before Internet, video games, and iPods, Knell said...
Munk credits his success to determination and the ability to set priorities. "I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused," he says. He also makes a point of hobnobbing with the right people. Nearly two years ago, Munk formed a blue-chip advisory board at Barrick whose members include former U.S. President George Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, as well as former Bundesbank chairman Karl Otto Pohl...
...with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory and the Nobel Prize. It's in many ways a familiar tale, Oliver Twist meets Albert Einstein, the pilgrim who comes to the promised land expecting, as he says, "the roads to be paved in gold. What I found actually was just opportunity." But his story also has enough nice serrated edges to challenge our theories about genes and genius and what really makes...
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That's not to say the best approach is a cold Dickensian bed. But Einstein's experience does suggest a middle course between moving to Reno for an lite new school and striking out alone at age 15. Currently, gifted programs too often admit marginal, hardworking kids and then mostly assign field trips and extra essays, not truly accelerated course work pegged to a student's abilities. Ideally, school systems should strive to keep their most talented students through a combination of grade skipping and other approaches (dual enrollment in community colleges, telescoping classwork without grade skipping) that ensure...