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...quite that simple. "Kids can be given the opportunities [to become passionate about a subject or activity], but they can't be forced," says Jacquelynne Eccles, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, who led a landmark, 25-year study examining what motivated first- and seventh-graders in three school districts. Even so, a growing number of educators and psychologists do believe it is possible to unearth ambition in students who don't seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children...
...college, Alito led a conference advocating the legalization of sodomy decades before the landmark 2003 Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas finally struck down government intrusions into sexual privacy. In his subsequent judicial career, he has often taken similarly progressive stances. Overturning a district court decision in Saxe v. State College Area School District, Alito boldly defended the students’ first amendment rights in non-school-sponsored speech. In Williams v. Price, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to a black prisoner when a juror made a racist remark after the trial, which emphasized the Sixth Amendment right...
...While he remained interested in Russia, by 1960, he was already working a wider front,” according to Colton. “His interests took him to more general questions of society and systems of power.” These interests led to Moore’s landmark 1966 work which, according to Theda Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a former student of Moore’s, “helped to define a whole field of comparative historical study.” While Moore remained at Harvard through 1979, he usually...
...than the HFA’s, Barron feels, is what helps it provide a unique way for people to learn more about film. Barron emphasizes that a large portion of the HFA’s programming is geared towards departmental classes. The Kendall Cinema, owned and operated by National Landmark Theatres, also benefits from additional financial support, but lacks the individual curation and film selection like the Brattle’s.These thoughts on the Brattle’s importance were echoed by Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies J.D. Connor ’92, who teaches popular courses...
Tribe—who represented a gay client convicted under a Georgia state sodomy law in the landmark 1986 Supreme Court case of Bowers v. Hardwick—wrote that the course would tackle issues related to marriage rights and same-sex weddings...