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...Association to other various service projects, Harvard offers a wealth of information and opportunities to students who want to give back to the community while at the College. As a matter of fact, Dixon has had plans in the works to start her own service program, “Math and Munch,” which would teach fourth and fifth graders math through cooking. However, Dixon acknowledges that guidance in pursuing non-profit work post-graduation is not as plentiful, “at the undergraduate level, Harvard is very supportive, but otherwise, there isn’t that...
...With all of these different backgrounds—math, medicine, genomics, physics—he’s come up with something novel...
...every lovable Doogie Howser, M.D., we fear there's also a William James Sidis. Little William was born in 1898 to an experimentally minded psychologist, Boris Sidis. He trotted William through school so quickly that the boy was enrolled at Harvard by age 11. William graduated with a math degree at 16, but soon after he lost interest in math and spent much of his life working at clerical jobs and writing esoteric books. Boris Sidis had offered his prodigy to the public as proof that young children can learn prodigiously; reporters would hound William Sidis as a failure...
Released this week at nation deceived org the report is a distillation of hundreds of past studies on grade skipping and other forms of acceleration (everything from taking a year of math in a semester to early college entrance). Those who follow education debates know that most school-reform ideas--charter schools, phonics and high-stakes testing leap to mind--are promoted on the strength of highly contested evidence. By contrast, as far back as 1965, Milton Gold said in his book Education of the Intellectually Gifted, "No paradox is more striking than the inconsistency between research findings on acceleration...
Through its site, redlinetextbooks.com, the corporation offers unused textbooks required in introductory chemistry, physics, math, economics and statistics courses...