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...Friday night, and Elizabeth “Betsy” C. Isaacson ’12 of Mather House leads a game in Old Quincy. She and her real-life boyfriend Alessandro La Porta ’09 run this game together as Game Masters, co-writing the plotlines for the weekly gatherings of eight Harvard students and one alum...
...worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science Review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. “He had this way of keeping things in perspective, putting friendships first, people first,” said Mark A. Isaacson ’11, one of Friedman’s roommates. Though he took his studies seriously—he went to class until the day he was admitted to the hospital for the last time—and did well academically, friends said he rarely needed...
...Walter Isaacson's article on national standards for public schools makes many important points [April 27]. As an English teacher at a high school with many Navy kids, I'd love to know that students coming from other states have a common background for me to start from. But before we set standards, we need to define the purpose of a public education. Right now, public schools are trying to be all things to all people: teaching about everything from harassment to baby care, and doing much of it poorly. We need a mission statement and a definition of basic...
With his comment that "I learned a lot of calculus, which hasn't proved that useful in my career," Isaacson gets at a key reason our schools aren't succeeding. The question isn't whether we have adequate standards; it's whether the curriculum prepares our students to be successful. What are the skills our young people need to be successful in today's society? Don't they need to know how to communicate, cooperate and problem-solve? Shouldn't they understand what it means to be punctual, responsible, committed and courteous? Shouldn't they have a thorough understanding...
...alarm bell Isaacson's article should have rung is why no one seems to expect the participation of the nation's mathematicians or their two professional societies in the construction of national mathematics standards for K-12. No other nation would dream of developing national mathematics standards without a sign-off by the country's mathematics community. Perhaps this exclusion of mathematicians is one reason children in the U.S. do not do as well on the international scene in mathematics as we would like them to. As a former official at the Massachusetts Department of Education, I will tell...