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Shirley Smart and Edgar Eager’s path to Harvard began in primary school. From across the table, the champion of universal first-class elementary education chimes in. Horace Mann, architect of American public schooling, ponders the debate over private education, charter schools, and educational reform. He tells the two graduates that today’s youth must have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach...
...Harvard or Yale. She eventually opted for Boston and Cambridge’s legendary bluegrass scene.By the time Brown enrolled at Harvard as a freshman, she had already recorded an album, toured the nation with fiddler Stuart Duncan, and won the Canadian National Banjo Championship.Brown has traveled a unique path to become a Grammy Award-winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first year roommates found...
...former teammates were hardly surprised when with this first career path prematurely ended and the former economics concentrator delved into the world of finance—a vocation that would eventually catapult him onto Forbes’s list of World Billionaires...
...glad his younger self never asked him how successful his verses and books would be. As we face the unanswered questions of where, to whom, and to which causes we shall devote our lives, let us leave today with a promise: to remain true to an ever-changing path, yet always armed with Harvard’s lesson of how to succeed–and also how to fail...
...slot at the Department of Interior, for example - not over the nominee's qualifications, but over anger at some of Obama's reversals of Bush Administration policies in that department. Such votes tend to be along party lines, and Franken's arrival could smooth the path for some of these nominees. "We have 30 or so executive nominations, nearly all uncontroversial, just sitting there in the Senate with the threat of GOP filibusters, which at minimum take a lot of time," says Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "There will be a number of judicial nominations...