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...Midcareer Math and Science Program, designed to retrain midcareer profession as math and science teachers, received founding two weeks ago for the new program with a grant of over $500,000 from the National Science Foundation...
When Shylock sings "Money Makes the World Go Around," in the middle of the play it is amusing. But Rossman has chosen to end the play with Antonio sitting alone in the darkened nightclub, slowly crooning this song's retrain. This seems to be an attempt to turn the play from a comedy into Shylock's tragedy...
Instead, Hart proposes using tax incentives to retrain workers and encourage industry to modernize. But unlike many, including Reagan, he does not want to abandon the traditional "smokestack" producers in the process. Hart is an early backer of Kennedy School lecturer Robert B. Reich's "industrial policy" to rejuvenate ailing industries using the government to negotiate compacts between management, labor, and the financial markets. Hart has also proposed a reform in entitlement programs to cut costs, and has advocated an active Federal Reserve Board to target interest rates to promote economic growth...
...seems, Hart has unveiled only one new idea, along with some vague new themes. His Individual Training Account--to be contributed to by both employer and employee--would be used to retrain workers in traditional and declining industries. It's a good idea, but it should be one of many, not the only one. Military reform and industrial policy are two themes Hart has often mentioned, but rarely explained. And neither is straightforward enough to evoke passion--much less interest...
Shattuck stresses the need for Harvard to improve its relations with the outside world at all levels: the local, the state and the national. He places particular emphasis on improving relations with Cambridge. He cites as an example the university's current efforts to retrain local teachers in science and math and to provide access to computers for Cambridge schools. "My proposal is to start with the local area and work out from there," he says adding. "This is an area where Harvard can be a leader...