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...their parents’ Amex, but still want to enjoy a good old fashioned bite at your folks’ expense—sans the crowds—the Four Seasons in Boston may have just the thing to celebrate those two new letters after your name. In the finest tradition of the genteel English high tea, the haute cuisine gurus at Boston’s five-star hotel have combined trendy Japanese fare with the more traditional scones and strawberries to make for a simply blissful, make-like-a-millionare afternoon extravaganza dubbed the “Power...
This year the three finest living baseball writers--Pulitzer prizewinning journalist David Halberstam, lifelong baseball scribe Roger Kahn and Roger Angell, a writer and editor at the New Yorker--have each, as if by a common agreement among the game's village elders, produced a new book, making the spring of 2003 quite possibly the all-time greatest single season of baseball writing ever. But it raises the question once again: Why do people who have way more important things to think about think about baseball...
...destroy them. Our delight is in the death-march of the argument over the novel notion, the heady idea: the sound of data crunching and uncertainty crushed beneath jackbooted convention. We drown the daisies in concrete and leave ourselves a toilsome ascent strewn with the rubble of our finest thoughts. And for what? At least Sisyphus realized when he was back at the bottom. We labor under the illusion that the ascent is never-ending...
...required class, lab or section. Sadly all the preparation, typing and attendance amounts to chunks of valuable time wasted on requirement tasks other than studying for final exams. It also makes for increased stress levels, reduced sleep levels and little to no enjoyment of May’s finest days...
This kind of education requires schools that emulate our finest schools, public and private and including those launched by urban educational leaders such as Deborah Meier, Hubert Dyasi and Lecturer on Education Theodore Sizer. It requires schools in which decisions about philosophy, pedagogy and curriculum are made by teachers, parents, students, and administrators within the school, working under broad guidelines established by the district and state. It requires schools in which the primary pedagogy is a Socratic partnership between teachers and learners. It requires schools in which assessment is truly comprehensive—what the MCAS was supposed to be?...