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George magazine's new Executive Editor Richard P. Blow told conference- goers about dropping out of graduate school at Harvard after three years. He called it one of the best decisions he'd ever made...
...Grad school is a very long conversation with a very small group of people," he said. "[Political journalism] is much more fun--and that's not unimportant...
Because Horn Trophy rules require at least one boat with a woman skipper for each school, Levin was forced to assume the role of skipper, a role she has never taken in a regatta before...
...recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
...they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...