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...Another of the study??s findings is that levels of social mobility in America are far lower than those in Europe. This is surprising because Europe, it is commonly thought, has sacrificed entrepreneurial drive and social dynamism on the altar of equality. There could never be an Andrew Carnegie or a Dave Thomas (the founder of Wendy’s) in the socialistic paradises of Scandinavia...
...study??s results will help educators to answer the important question of whether or not students’ writing actually improves during their time at Harvard. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who sign up for the study online will receive $50 for writing a 90-minute essay and filling out a brief self-evaluation questionnaire. Each student’s writing sample will then be compared to his or her Expository Writing placement test—the one that all students take at the beginning of freshman year. This design will also allow the the test to illuminate exactly...
...study??s goal was to examine reasons behind the high level of diversity in heritage and socioeconomic levels within black student populations at 28 American universities, said Camille Z. Charles, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. The report was published in last month’s American Journal of Education...
...team as well as the men and women’s crew teams at the beginning of the study and reassessed them after a three month period of “fairly intense training,” according to Research Fellow in Medicine Aaron L. Baggish, one of the study??s lead researchers. “There were changes in [the heart structure of] almost every athlete,” said Baggish, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. But he also emphasized that one of the key results of the study is that “different types...
...like ourselves so much? The study??s authors hypothesize that the culture of self-esteem that has dominated parenting since the 1980s is to blame for our conceitedness. If you tell a kid that he is special enough times, eventually he believes...