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...with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. "These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren't considered gifted and talented. [They] destroy their confidence," says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist and president of the Efficacy Institute, a Boston-area organization that works with teachers and parents in school districts around the country to help improve children's academic performance. Howard and other educators say it's important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests...
After the graduate proseminar, Pinker’s girlfriend, Rebecca Goldstein, a visiting philosophy professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a well-known scholar herself, picks him up for a book party hosted by advice columnist Margo Howard of “Dear Prudence” fame...
...North Cambridge resident who has combined internet expertise with political activism, Gordon helped launch Mass for Dean, an online campaigning site for presidential hopeful Howard Dean, and worked as a technical director for Robert Reich’s failed gubernatorial...
MANAGING EDITOR: James R. Gaines DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR: John F. Stacks EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Richard Duncan ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Joelle Attinger, James Kelly, Christopher Porterfield EDITOR AT LARGE: Kurt Andersen EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Oliver Knowlton SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Nancy R. Gibbs, S.C. Gwynne, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman, Claudia Wallis ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes DESIGN DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
...whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes, on the field and off 88 People: Michael Jackson's age of innocence is over...