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Kumon and other similar teaching methods are the best way to ensure that students practice math skills outside the classroom. Mastery is something that takes time and practice even for some of the most gifted students. The government should focus on ways to fund tutoring through schools or through local...

Author: By Ronald K. Kamdem | Title: Doing Math the Easy Way | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

Kids who attend Deep Springs were usually Harvard material while in high school. Students from the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), a competitive program for gifted high school juniors, often continue at Deep Springs and colleges like Harvard—there are at least seven TASP alums in Harvardâ?...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back from the Ranch | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

He figured wrong. As class attendance steadily thins, the workload does not. The first few problem sets each take about 40 hours to complete. The work burden is reason enough for many extraordinarily gifted students to drop.

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burden of Proof | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Ignatieff may have been harmed by several campaign gaffes, including a series of contorted positions on Israel's summer bombing campaign in Lebanon. He stated that he wouldn't "lose any sleep" over collateral damage that included the death of several Lebanese infants, then subsequently declared that Israel had committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will a Harvard Thinker Reinvigorate Canada's Liberal Party? | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

It's possible, barely, to reduce the novel to a finite plot description. Hal Incandenza is a gifted, troubled student at a high-level Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Years Beyond Infinite | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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