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...talked before about the deficiencies of the U.S. public-education system. If you were U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan - who has about $5 billion in discretionary funding and a mandate to fix our schools - what would you do? There's precious little experimentation in education. Instead there seems to be a desire for greater regimentation, which I think is nonsense. I think we need to try 100 different things. If I were Arne Duncan, I'd think of myself as a venture capitalist, fund as many wacky and inventive ideas as I could, and closely monitor them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Malcolm Gladwell | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...studying around boys and men intimidating. "They want to be able to relax and not worry about what other people think about them," she says, though that's partly because Saudi men don't know how to behave around women. "Before you bring in something new you have to fix the old habits," she says. "If you want women to drive, send the men to driving school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rights, and Challenges, for Saudi Women | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...think the biggest takeaway from this is that there’s plenty to improve,” Ehrlich said. “There’s plenty to fix before we go down the Ivy League stretch...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mistakes Prove Costly as Harvard Falls to Leopards | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...collapse during a major temblor, which is exactly how most of the deaths in the 1989 quake occurred. "If you have a 20-story apartment building built in 1920, that structure is a collapse hazard," says Yanev. "We know the problem, but the political will is not there to fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake Preparedness: Lessons from San Francisco | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...very gesture of gathering visual media from the movement into a gallery is to fix ACT UP in time, and to soften its message that the AIDS crisis is ongoing...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Re-Act | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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