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...KIPP formula is very basic: its schools thrive on a culture of hard work, discipline, accountability and incentives. Students, parents and teachers are all required to sign a “Commitment to Excellence?? form, in which they promise to fulfill their respective obligations. The school day is long, beginning at 7:25 a.m. and lasting until 5:00 p.m. “KIPPsters” (as they’re known) also typically put in four hours on Saturdays. This may sound excessively rigorous, but every director or teacher I spoke with emphasized how enthusiastically the students...
...Harvard in 1983 at the then-unprecedented age of 28. But Summers left Harvard’s halls behind yesterday—spending five hours teaching classes and meeting with teachers at the Jackson-Mann Elementary School in Allston—as part of the Boston Plan for Excellence??s Principal For A Day program. About 600 Kindergarten through 5th-grade students from 26 different countries attend the school...
...unceasing psychological quest for self-affirming achievement, not the need to relax after a hard day of classes, is what makes so many Harvard students immerse themselves in extracurriculars. As long as Harvard remains a center of excellence??meaning, in the true sense of the word, a place where almost everyone seeks a field in which to excel—there will be no way to change this state of affairs. In fact, such change may not even be desirable: extracurriculars at Harvard create valuable end products precisely because of the ambition and drive of the students...
Harvard—long known for its academic excellence??is now gaining national recognition for its athletic prowess...
Harvard’s reputation for excellence??built up president by president over the preceding centuries—has developed into almost mythic proportions...