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...winners of this year’s awards ranged from a 22-year-old MIT math professor who has studied the computational geometry of Tetris to a biomedical engineer who employs the biophysics of noise to enhance motor control to a modern day blacksmith...
...soon as my daughter's no-nonsense first-grade teacher began rattling off academic benchmarks and curriculum standards during parents' night last month, it was clear that we weren't in kindergarten anymore. She was precise about what was expected from the kids--and from us. Nightly reading and math problems, spelling and handwriting homework due each Friday and a mix of other assignments to be turned in at the end of each month. I quickly began to ponder one tough math problem: If we get home from work at 6 p.m., and we set aside time for piano practice...
Even a first-grader can come up with useful ideas for moving the evening routine along. My daughter invented bath math, practicing her addition and subtraction while soaking in the tub. In the nightly scramble to get the lights out sooner, every little bit is a plus...
Used to focusing exclusively on the sciences and math, she says the “huge” reading lists in American English are one of the hardest adjustments she is having to make...
...replicated for 4000 other students (it is safe to bet that a slim minority masochistically challenge themselves in their Core selections), something else happens: the Core becomes ludicrously easy. For most Harvard kids, their Core selections represent the path of least resistance. I have no inclination to take Math 1a, and certainly not Math 21a, because I can always take “The Magic of Numbers.” Likewise, someone uninterested in philosophy would not fulfill their Moral Reasoning requirement by taking Philosophy 168: “Kant’s Ethical Theory,” the only...