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...rare splurge amidst the University’s belt tightening—which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—a major contribution, considering the $77 million round of budget cuts this spring. And though...
...graduation night from Yale Divinity School, May 1980, I witnessed an example of racial profiling by Yale Police hauntingly similar to that endured by Professor Gates this year, only the unfortunate handcuff victim was neither famous nor in his own home. And unfortunately, the term ‘racial profiling” had not been coined...
...Clickers, blogs, and even Google’s Android cell phone are all showing up in classrooms across Harvard’s campus. But many Harvard professors say that though the days of internet-free classrooms may be long over, nothing will replace face to face interactions in the classroom that are the foundation of Harvard’s Cambridge-style education model. According to a recent article in the New York times, institutions are becoming more and more willing to pour scarce dollars into interactive technologies for the classroom. Online institutions like the University of Pheonix, Devry, and even...
...behavior. Many of the estimated 100,000 young offenders across the nation are from troubled families in which there was parental abuse and neglect. Most have drug- or alcohol-abuse problems, more than half have mental-health problems, and many suffer educational disabilities. No wonder Fred Cohen, a professor emeritus of law and criminal justice at SUNY Albany, says the juvenile facilities have become dumping grounds for society's "throwaway kids." (See TIME's video "Inside Mexico's Overcrowded Prisons...
...Cabinet, and Ozawa's party. I don't think Ozawa will meddle on the policy side. He has his dream job - another crack at sticking the knife into the LDP heart without the distasteful job of being accountable to the media." Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University, says the Hatoyama Administration is a game changer in Japanese politics - and that Ozawa's objective has changed as well. The key question, he says: "Does Hatoyama as Prime Minister have the leadership ability to say, 'This is what needs to be done,' and insist it get done...