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Criticizing excessive planning and economic analysis in development strategies, the chairman of the panel, John W. Thomas, said "the cost-benefit analysis taught in courses at Harvard and other schools is often irrelevant when real-world implementation problems in developing countries are considered...
...local program has expanded this year--its second--and is so successful and generates such intense competition for admission that the school plans to almost double the program next year. The program is the Kennedy School doing what President Bok wants it to do--train people in the real-world problems that they have to face back in Denver...
...most turbulent reaction came from the economists. Called upon to use their science to explain one of its most unsettling real-world applications, they broke ranks in characteristic confusion, and gave the nation nothing more than a picture of academe at its worst--a group of grown men playing with charts, tables and numbers, more interested in defending their own theories and schools of thought than in helping the nation understand its economic agony...
Goodfriend's experience with the educational system provides a foundation for his opinions. A professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii, his last diary records a one-year sabbatical aboard the S.S. Universe a college-on-ship that floats around the world attempting to blend academic and real-world learning...
Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, said the fellowship program "could provide career opportunities for young scholars seeking to practice their discipline in a real-world framework...