Word: giftedness
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In choosing Neusner as his muse, Benedict selected a man as formidable and controversial in the field of Jewish studies as the Pope is in Catholicism. An expert on the sprawling literature of the 1st through 6th century rabbis who shaped modern Judaism, Neusner is an empire builder, a central...
More daylight Maintain the reporting requirements of NCLB but encourage states to provide a fuller picture of school quality than the bare bones of AYP. Congress should offer incentives--carrots, not sticks--for school districts to provide more information to their communities, including high school graduation rates, measures of student...
The process by which Jones became dean of admissions at M.I.T. looks from afar, at least, like American meritocracy working the way it is supposed to work. Once she was in the door and proving her competence, nobody gave a hoot about her résumé, which is why her fabrication...
A few years later, Jaws and Star Wars became successively the all-time top-grossing movies, and the teen market announced itself as the dominant one. Why make movies for adults, the moguls asked rhetorically, when the kids are our most reliable customers? The best American movies were no longer...
...Pays to Be Nice I was disgusted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Her attitude is from the aggressive 1980s. It is ridiculous to claim that there is a correlation between nastiness and giftedness. Some nasty people happen to be gifted, but it is not their nastiness that makes them so; on the contrary, it diminishes their effectiveness and costs their companies in both dollars and goodwill. I would not want to have a Steve Jobs or anyone on my team who "scars" his employees. Warren Buffett and Jimmy Carter, for example, do not find...