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When Michael S. Dukakis left his post as a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government faculty to become governor of Massachusetts, he announced that his term would be "a test of what I have learned and what we try to teach at the Kennedy School." But it seems the governor didn't want to take the test by himself...
Such contacts have helped the school gain government grants and contracts, including a $1.6 million annual contract to teach management to senior defense officials. The school also conducts "executive seminars" for newly elected congressmen, mayors, state and local officials and sub-cabinet officials...
...effective program. It must start in the lower grades or kindergarten; two health educators at the state-funded Western Massachusetts Primary Prevention Center are even developing a program for preschoolers. It must be continuous, not a one-shot or one-week affair. It must go beyond drugs to teach children how to develop the self-esteem that those tempted by narcotics usually lack and how to deal with strains and tensions without turning to drugs. It must not only tell children to say no but train them to resist peer pressure. And it must be realistic: Booze, for example, candidly...
...Eliot, who, starting in 1869, remade Harvard with a new emphasis on research and graduate study, and, among his faculty, strongly encouraged these scholarly pursuits. At Harvard, as at other institutions, the compass needles of many ambitious academics swung toward research. One result is that complaints about poor undergraduate teaching, lofty and inaccessible scholars, huge impersonal survey courses and cold university bureaucracies are heard on campuses from Maine to California. Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question of how to teach undergraduates and what to teach them. Eight years ago, in reaction to the freewheeling...
...school, meanwhile, is recovering from a guerrilla war among some of its faculty. On one side stand old-liners who teach law as a pure discipline, without value colorations. Attacking them is a rebel cadre under the banner of Critical Legal Studies, a left-leaning doctrine that claims the law is no impartial instrument but serves principally, and in partisan fashion, to maintain the status quo in society. Beneath the spoken issues lies a suspicion that the law school may have become too inbred and is not as concerned with legal ethics as it should...