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...like to tell the story of a Chinese manufacturer that was getting feedback about its washing machines' clogging up drains. The company investigated and found that the machines worked just fine but that rural consumers were using them to wash potatoes. What would an American company do to solve this problem? Call in a p.r. firm to tell consumers that washing vegetables voids their warranty? The Chinese company had a better idea: it added a vegetable-wash cycle to its machines. We call this innovating with ingenuity--and no government program can teach this...
...site, however, saying, “I understand that professors’ words are often their intellectual property, but I think what we are paying for in education is more the chance to interact personally with that professor…as well as the opportunity for writing and feedback. I think the availability of valuable insights and subjects to learn for those who don’t have the privilege of being in college is a pretty great thing...
Relatively few second-year students attended the meeting—in part because many were interviewing for summer jobs—even though Kagan said she felt most uncertain about the grading system they will use. According to over 100 feedback e-mails solicited by the Law School’s student government, opinions of second-year students remain mixed...
...meetings were a result of the district’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Education, a formalized effort to study and improve the city’s middle school system. The Commission charged Fowler-Finn with presenting a set of recommendations to the school committee, based on feedback from administrators, teaching staff, and parents. On both nights, Fowler-Finn went over the pros and cons of four potential options for Cambridge’s middle schools, which include working with the current K-8 structure, establishing a 6-8 middle school, creating a 7-8 grade unit...
...hands far more than most of us ever suspected," he writes in this provocative book. But ordinary practice isn't enough for extraordinary results. Colvin is a believer in "deliberate practice," highly mentally demanding activity designed to improve performance, which should be repeated a lot--with feedback. Oh, yeah, says Colvin, "It isn't much fun." But it delivers...