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...Oxford was similar to home schooling in another way, as well: his mom came to England, too, continuing to read him his assignments. While his mother had the most hands-on impact on his education, his father, from whom his mother is now separated, also influenced his educational choices. “My father has an MBA, a J.D. and an advanced engineering degree. I definitely modeled his excitement for multi-tasking career interests,” Bolger says...
...couple of months before deciding to go to school abroad. “I was more interested in getting a date than in clerking for the Supreme Court. My maturity level was just not compatible with my peers,” he says of Yale. He headed to Oxford and Cambridge next, an experience he calls reminiscent of home schooling because of the one-on-one tutorial system and the long term breaks that allowed for lots of travel...
...Since Oxford, he’s bounced from Stanford to summers at Dartmouth and then to Columbia. The total tally, after the associate’s degree, is as follows: A.B. from the University of Michigan, 1994; M.Sc. from the University of Oxford (Sociology), 1997; M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge (Politics), 1998; A.M. from Stanford University (Education), 2000; M.S. from Columbia University (Real Estate Development), 2001; M.A. from Teachers College (Politics of Education), 2001; M.Des.S. from Harvard University (Urban Planning & Real Estate), 2002. Now he’s working on a doctorate (D.Des.) in Urban Planning and Real...
...He’s teaching back at Oxford and it’s all on hold,” Vendler said...
Paulin, who this fall served as a visiting lecturer at Columbia, has since returned to his post as lecturer at Oxford...