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During his time at Harvard, Grogan has won widespread praise for improving the University's ties with the city of Boston, which had been strained in recent years because of the University's secret purchase of large amounts of land in Allston.
Testifying last week before a Colorado legislative committee on education, Sherry Workman, principal of Laurel Elementary in Fort Collins, noted that behavior infractions fell 66% after she implemented various "bullyproofing" initiatives at her school. The younger children, for instance, are coached in how to walk confidently past older kids who...
Early this month, in New York City, you could have seen 16 provocative Chinese films?a bigger selection of mainland movie artistry than the most devoted moviegoer could ever find in Beijing or Shanghai theaters. These are works of the so-called Sixth Generation: directors who made their first films...
Testifying last week before a Colorado legislative committee on education, Sherry Workman, principal of Laurel Elementary in Fort Collins, noted that behavior infractions fell 66% after she implemented various "bullyproofing" initiatives at her school. The younger children, for instance, are coached in how to walk confidently past older kids who...
One reason we praise and blame with such vehemence is because of what sociologists call "correspondence bias," which is our tendency to attribute the cause of events to individual human actions. Thus, we say that Alan Greenspan spurred our prosperity when in fact it was a myriad of different circumstances...