Word: environmental
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College life can be rather dull at times--hours and hours spent reading textbooks and writing essays. So my thinking is, if I have to spend so much at a desk at least let in be in an environment that I like. That's why I spent so much time...
The majority of Noguera's research and teaching has been in the area of urban education, in particular the ways in which schools respond to social and economic forces within the urban environment. He has been praised for applying his philosophies to real-life situations.
Harvard does have some intellectuals. Each of these groups attract some, but in some ways it feels like a fluke. Given the hostile environment to real thinking, students become "politic."
Everyone who took Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology" knows that our hunter-gathering ancestors, to whose environment we are adapted, work three to four hours per day on average, while relaxing and playing for the rest of the time.
"It's a place for low-income folks who can't afford to go to Martha's Vineyard to go," he said. "It meant a lot for me to see if we could make a difference in the environment [where they live]."