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John told me of his indiscretion on Dec. 30, 2006, after returning from a tour to announce that he was running for President. Before the announcement tour he had asked my brother to come with him to film it, since Jay taught film at the graduate film school at NYU, but when Jay found out another videographer was coming whether he came or not, Jay said no. Now the announcement tour was over and we were sitting in our family room, John telling us about the response in the various cities. John pulled Jay aside and asked him again...
...organization charged with managing Harvard’s endowment. Campbell spent this academic year on leave, though he remained in Cambridge for most of the year researching housing foreclosures. Campbell’s popular undergraduate offering “Economics 1763: Capital Markets” will be taught by a visiting professor next year in order to lighten the incoming chair’s teaching duties as he assumes his new role. Several members of the economics department interviewed yesterday said they supported Social Sciences Dean Steven M. Kosslyn’s decision to appoint Campbell as chair, which...
...threw on the wheel obsessively,” David says. When he was 16 he worked as an assistant in his high school ceramics studio: “My teacher really tried to foster my growth as a ceramics artist.” His neighbor, a dentist by trade, taught him not only the fundamentals of pot-making but the science behind firing kilns, making glazes, and forming clay bodies—skills seldom taught in typical classes but that are essential to the art of ceramics. David also picked up rare methods, like raku, a Japanese technique where...
...that he’s retired from teaching at the various university writing programs where he taught in the ’70s and ’80s, Ashbery’s daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs...
...provision, a teacher is considered highly qualified if he or she holds a bachelor’s degree and a teaching license and demonstrates knowledge in every subject in which he or she teaches. While no rational person could disagree with the fact that all children deserve to be taught by “highly qualified” professionals, the supposed uncontroversial nature of the provision is undercut by the difficulty of evaluating intangible factors that determine whether a teacher is highly qualified.The neutrality of the provision’s assumptions “are especially problematic in rural schools...