Word: scholaritis
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...overjoyed,” Professor of Anthropology and of Af-Am Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 said of Morgan’s possible arrival. “First, because she has unique gifts to bring to the academy, and she is probably the leading scholar of hip hop and of the collecting and history of hip hop music which has influenced the entire planet.” Morgan’s return would also mean the rehiring of her husband Lawrence D. Bobo, who directs Stanford’s Af-Am program and its Center for Comparative...
...leading legal scholar in trusts and estates will leave the New York University School of Law to join the Harvard Law School faculty next fall. The appointment of Robert H. Sitkoff to the tenure-track professorship is the Law School’s fifth appointment of the year, and comes just a week after the Law School announced that Gabriella Blum and D. James Greiner would be joining the faculty as assistant professors. The other two professors who were appointed earlier in the year were Kathryn Spier of Northwestern University’s School of Management and School...
...offended when Christians eat pork," says Jacob Neusner. At least not usually. The brilliant--and none too patient--Jewish scholar does recall a religion conference where so much of the other white meat was served that he was reduced to a diet of hard-boiled eggs. One day on the food line something snapped, and he rhymed aloud, "I hope you all get trichinosis/And come to believe in the God of Moses." A fellow conferee instantly replied, "And if we don't get such diseases/Will you believe in the God of Jesus?" Neusner cackles. "That's an example...
...Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and noncongregational rabbi projected himself back into the Gospel of Matthew to quiz Jesus on the Jewish law. He found the Nazarene's interpretation irredeemably faulty. In his 14-years-delayed response, Benedict not only compliments Neusner as a "great Jewish scholar" but also recapitulates the thesis of A Rabbi Talks and spends a third of one of his 10 chapters answering...
There are, however, two surefire ways to hit the 2014 target. One is for schools to cheat on the tests--a frighteningly commonplace solution, according to David Berliner, a respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...