Word: professionalizing
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For years, six-figure starting salaries have been the exclusive privilege of bankers, doctors, and lawyers. But now, a New York City charter school called The Equity Project promises to bring teachers into the $100,000-plus-club as well. The Equity Project, which is located in the historically disadvantaged...
The summer before her freshman year, Sarah H. Arshad ’09 received a Harvard College handbook listing all the concentrations along with explanations of what they were about.“I remember glancing through it and I kind of laughed like, ‘Oh folk and...
...inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna to campus each semester. Jobin—who is also this year’s Clifton Visiting Artist, a position given by the Office for the Arts and reserved for a young female artist—talked about her professional life and based discussion on students’ questions. Jobin arrived at Harvard as a 16-year-old and became one of the first students to concentrate in women’s studies, with a minor in music. Finding that women composers were not studied at all in the music...
Henriques also implicated her own profession in the crisis, saying, “The media in general has been less effective in its educational mission.”
French journalist and philosopher (apparently still at least a part-time profession in the 21st century) Levy is in full finger-wagging mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. la Tocqueville and painted a...