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Harvard cannot remain at the top by standing still, and Summers has not and will not let the University rest on its laurels. But driving the University to become richer and more powerful than it is should never come at the expense of alienating large swaths of an irreplaceable faculty. Now is the time for compromise. Sacrificing his own ambitions and opinions for the good of the University is the only way for President Summers to lift the black pall of distrust, anger and estrangement now draping Harvard’s every corner...
...being taught or how. When a teacher has spent the whole summer brightening and deepening the history curriculum for her ninth-graders, finding new ways to surprise and engage them, it is frustrating to encounter parents whose only focus is on test scores. "If these parents were pushing for richer, more meaningful instruction, you could almost forgive them their obnoxiousness and inattention to the interests of all the other children," says Alfie Kohn, a Boston-based education commentator and author of Unconditional Parenting. But "we have pushy parents pushing for the wrong thing." He argues that test scores often measure...
Scientists will have all the time they need to tease out richer science from the data that Huygens left them. As even a few pictures show, they have plenty to work with. --Reported by Dan Cray/Pasadena and Ursula Sautter/Darmstadt, Germany
TOLL You can't square it. The polarization of wealth in the past 20 years has been extreme. The number of families making $100,000 a year has grown six times as fast as the population. The rich are getting richer and buying bigger houses. Meanwhile, as an industry, we're only building the same number of homes each year as 20 years ago, even as the population grows...
...often leave graduate schools with debts in excess of $100,000, accumulated from undergraduate and graduate tuition. Does Harvard want to push its best-educated graduates only into the highest-paying fields, where many of them will inevitably use their education and brainpower to help the rich keep getting richer, leaving others to fend for themselves...