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What Sanger claims is not that the site should fall out of favor. Rather, he feels that it (and, he would argue, any other would-be reliable source online) needs to jettison some of its “anti-elitism” in favor of a legitimate peer review system, one which displays a genuine respect for authority. If, for example, there’s a dispute over the evolutionary development of women, shouldn’t we hasten to give more credit to a noted biologist than to an economist? And at any rate, shouldn’t either...
...Leave your own school baggage at home. We all have memories of teachers and classes that made us miserable. Set those aside and approach your child's teacher as a peer and partner. Assume a teacher wants to see your child succeed in school and in life--just as you do. The respect you show a teacher is contagious and will find its way back to your child...
Single-sex housing was the last barrier left. Harvard had always stood in the vanguard of higher education with its Radcliffe offshoot. But after peer institutions Yale and Princeton officially announced plans to go co-ed in 1968, Harvard students were behind...
...only need recall our own first year to remember why we ate in upperclass dining halls: the feeling of self-importance, and, for some, geographic convenience, but certainly not to meet upperclass students. Certainly, there are other ways to better integrate first-years into upperclass social life, including upperclass peer-advising, and, more dramatically, testing a Yale-style housing system...
...dark, another pops up. As open-source software, BitTorrent does not reside on a central site that can be shut down, and it continually evolves as software writers tinker with the code. A recent upgrade, called Exeem, blends the swarming technology with the more robust search capabilities of earlier peer-to-peer software; instead of visiting tracker sites, users enter a title in a search box and Exeem scours the Web for the file--making it trickier for the piracy police to clamp down on scofflaws...