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...culture will be," says Karen Sumberg of the Center for Work-Life Policy in the U.S. "If taking time to go see your child play soccer is O.K., and you see that the man or woman at the top does the same thing, then the culture will start to shift in that direction...
...just chauffeuring that's required. Fathers need to stimulate their children intellectually and emotionally just as much as mothers do, whether that means helping with homework or listening to a child's problems. In cultural terms, this is a seismic shift. Bear in mind that half a century ago, as men moved from villages to cities-or overseas-to find work, they had very little contact with their sons. Those sons, with educations paid for by their fathers' remittances, were able to advance up the socioeconomic ladder. But the jobs they took-many of them white-collar jobs...
...Shields was also excellent. As Antony, he delivered the funeral oration—his big moment in what could otherwise be considered a Brutus and Cassius show—with fantastic emotion and more than a touch of the manipulation, making it obvious why the speech could shift public opinion so rapidly...
...According to Fitzsimmons, this shift may be accounted for by the recent creation of Harvard’s School of Engineering. He added that changes in curriculum, including the pending curricular review, could bolster the College’s appeal in the coming years...
...with how it was taught, an error of method, not of content. In this light, the Task Force’s report seems too erudite and abstract for the dilemma at hand, like trying to fix a broken down car with a new theory of locomotion. The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little to address the Core’s real problem, which is that it promotes an atomized, individualistic type of learning while rarely encouraging undergraduates to take a meaningful role...