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...told TIME recently. "I think those who are bashing me and questioning my leadership skills are usually unhappy with the new way of doing things." Nagin has been doing things differently for quite some time. Raised poor in New Orleans, he attended Alabama's Tuskegee University on a baseball scholarship, earned an M.B.A. from Tulane University and worked his way up the ranks to vice president at cable giant Cox Communications by turning around its flagging New Orleans cable system. After hearing his son complain about New Orleans' dearth of career opportunities, Nagin entered the 2002 mayoral race only...
...Sociology Mary C. Waters. This Wednesday, Anderson ended his silence on the issue and released a response to the letter to the editor.“I never imagined that I would be dismissed with such utter confidence by respected figures of the discipline I have devoted my scholarship and career to serving,” he wrote. “I find their letter unconvincing and disturbing.”Anderson also wrote that Edin and Kefalas’s book “owes a strong and almost entirely unacknowledged debt to” his previous works, although...
...also said that the assertions of Huntington’s book were the product of poor academic work. “We’re not protesting his right to say these things, we’re protesting his ideas...there’s really a lot of scholarship on this issue and he doesn’t present it clearly,” he said. Huntington holds the title of University Professor, Harvard’s most prestigious professorial position and an honor bestowed on only a handful of faculty members. This fall, he is teaching Government 1747, Contemporary...
...they already know in order to convey it to their students. As Orin Gutlerner, director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), puts it, “A lot of people perceive K-12 teaching as an intellectually deadening experience, something that’s more about service than scholarship. But nothing could be further from the truth, as long as you approach the work with creativity and curiosity.” At the university level, Harvard College Professor Lino Pertile is in complete agreement: “I teach for myself as much as I teach for my students...
...Professors could challenge their classes with interesting and difficult exam problems without worrying that most students would be unable to answer them. Papers could be graded much more critically; even students would admit that the papers that we think are good are probably not the best pieces of academic scholarship. Once in a blue moon a student would meet these challenges and earn an A, and this would not demean the accomplishment of the B’s, C’s, and D’s earned by his or her peers...