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...disappointed that Ms. Gibbs avoided the greater question about what is happening to boys [April 14]. Rather than question what might be behind the slide in boys' achievement - and what the long - term effect might be if boys continue to fall behind - the article instead turns to ponder what this all means for girls. It is a sad commentary when even an article about boys' academic troubles seems uninterested in the roots of the problem. Malia Blom, Director, Boys and Schools, Washington...
...disappointed that Ms. Gibbs avoided the greater question about what is happening to boys [April 14]. Rather than question what might be behind the slide in boys' achievement--and what the long-term effect might be if boys continue to fall behind--the article instead turns to ponder what this all means for girls. It is a sad commentary when even an article about boys' academic troubles seems uninterested in the roots of the problem. Malia Blom, Director, Boys and Schools WASHINGTON...
When authors ponder globalization in books like Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, they usually pay scant attention to Latin America beyond the North American Free Trade Agreement. Who can blame them? Compared with the record growth of and foreign investment pouring into the emerging markets of Asia and Eastern Europe, Latin America still looks globally noncompetitive...
...novel obsessed with ideas. Each character lives in the world of his thoughts, fanatically obsessed with a particular subject—for Keith, it is modern American politics, for Mark, the 1917 Russian Revolution, and for Sam, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They do not just ponder these subjects abstractly, but live through them; their entire world is framed by them. For the characters, the whole world can be understood as analogous to these ideas. When Mark tries to convince Celeste, the woman he desires, to leave her boyfriend for him, his inner monologue is about the Bolsheviks...
...Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” government professor Michael Sandel asks undergraduates the “big questions.” Outside of this class, however, few Harvard students are ever asked to ponder the personal implications of the answers to life’s toughest and most general queries. Following studies by education professor Richard J. Light, it seems that now Harvard undergraduates—at least those from the Class of 2011—will have another chance to tackle these “big questions.” Following many interviews and surveys...