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...longer school day, week or year is not the answer to reforming education. My family has three college graduates--two of whom have master's degrees--and we somehow managed to do it while getting out of school at 3 p.m. and having summers off. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the reason many poorer children don't get a good education is that education is not stressed at home. I am a teacher in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country, and the students have after-school programs and Saturday academy and even go to school...
Alain Passard's decision in 2001 to transform his three-star Paris restaurant l'Arpège - famous for its slow-cooked T-bones, lamb and duck - into a temple to the vegetable raised many an eyebrow in the world of haute cuisine. For the erstwhile master rôtisseur, however, it constituted a culinary rebirth. "Vegetables were a resurrection for me," Passard says. In seeking to define "the first vegetable haute cuisine," Passard has since created such signature dishes as beetroot in croûte de sel and onion flambé with pears and praline sauce. But perhaps...
...Examples from Socrates to Sherlock Holmes teach us from an early age that smart people master their emotions and suffer no blind spots. Classic economic theory extends this fallacy, says Duke University's Dan Ariely, by maintaining that people and institutions rationally "weigh the costs and benefits of every decision in order to optimize the outcome...
...high school, Oppenheimer received private lessons from tap master Sam Weber, who the New York Times writes is “the equivalent of a virtuoso pianist...
...suit with red embroidery, her dark curls swept into a ponytail. She begins to speak, but her words are devoured by the noise. Seconds later, she picks up her pace and volume, and silence falls over the room—it’s clear that she is the master of the classroom with her spunk and congeniality...