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...score was 2365.42. Columbia, which ranked second, scored more than a hundred points lower. Stanford, which came in third, scored more than a hundred points less than Columbia. Yale ranked a distant eighth. “It’s kind of interesting how large the gap was between Harvard and the other schools,” Payack said. “The difference between Harvard and MIT was substantial.” MIT ranked 19th, with a score of less than nine hundred. Payack said that colleges and universities have cultivated brand names that carry strong connotations among...
...vice versa. Even though she's taller and fitter and better educated than most of us, she is completely and totally believable as a person who lives in the same world we do, who consumes the same pop culture (Us Weekly, anyone?) and shops at the same stores (Target, Gap) and struggles with most if not all of the same personal and professional juggling acts...
...parts of the brain responsible for things like sensation seeking are getting turned on in big ways around the time of puberty," says Temple University psychologist Laurence Steinberg. "But the parts for exercising judgment are still maturing throughout the course of adolescence. So you've got this time gap between when things impel kids toward taking risks early in adolescence, and when things that allow people to think before they act come online. It's like turning on the engine of a car without a skilled driver at the wheel...
...American history in which bureaucratization was on the rise and, as a result, imagination was quickly disappearing. Mills worried that Americans, increasingly unable to cultivate themselves, were morphing into passive receptacles filled by the social norms and mores of their time. In “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It,” Tony Wagner, the co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, exhibits the same...
...With “a foot in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences connected to Harvard College and a foot in the University connected to professional schools” SEAS hopes to bridge the gap between basic science research and the real world, Venky said...