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Because progressive methods of education often do not produce desirable results within short periods of time, Lagemann said, their proponents are often hard-pressed to find support—especially financial support. With this lack of funds has come a lack of incentives for scholars to enter the field, as well as for prospective teachers to become educators, and a lack of improvement in research in general...
...Enter, after a short intermission, one of contemporary rock music’s most soulful and intelligent singer/songwriters. Adams’ posture was delicate as he skirted the stage, fingering his newly-cut hair. He lit a cigarette, drew slowly and deliberately, sipped wine from a plastic cup and finally sat, guitar in hand, to sketch the opening measures of “Oh My Sweet Carolina.” The crowd responded, grateful, but Adams abridged the song: “Don’t do that,” he gestured at the applause, “that...
...Enter the off-campus female. Boston is full of them—Wellesley, Lesley, Simmons and Fisher, all women’s colleges in the Boston area, have a combined population of about 4,000, and at Boston University, women comprise around 60 percent of the population. The climate is ripe for Harvard men to look elsewhere...
...students whose credentials coming out of high school are not quite up to snuff. Because Harvard considers taking a year off to be beneficial, it follows that these 20 students, having spent a year studying or traveling, will as a result have somewhat more impressive curricula vitae when they enter school than otherwise...
...regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did? Likewise, many scholars maintain that knowledge of Hitler’s escalating program of genocide in Europe had very little to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision to enter World War II on that continent. Do we care in the slightest that he might have been more concerned with getting revenge on Japan than with liberating the Nazi concentration camps, considering that we saved the lives of those victims we could? Obviously, any equation of Saddam Hussein?...