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...first days of medical school, students are often asked, "What has hooves and gallops?" The good medical student answers, "A horse, unless of course it's a zebra." This question is meant to teach students that most patients who cough have colds, not cystic fibrosis, or that most patients who have bruised shins suffer from clumsiness, not leukemia. But what is true for most is unfortunately not so for all - and one of the most crucial and challenging skills that medical students must learn is to diagnose "the horse" efficiently without forgetting "the zebra...
...computer with some chips? That was the question nagging at Julia Jordan, a professor of hospitality management at New York City College of Technology. Her answer: the Dinner Party Project. Jordan helped create the school-based program for fifth- through seventh-graders five years ago to teach students all about throwing the perfect dinner party. Its goal is not to turn the kids into mini Martha Stewarts. Instead, it aims to get kids involved and excited about the possibilities of sharing a meal. "We felt that youngsters had lost the connection to food," says Jordan, who founded Spoons Across America...
...sees Berkeley as the launchpad for a nationwide revolution. Cooper's district is also unusual in allowing her to rack up a $250,000-a-year loss. Still, she believes Berkeley's model is exportable, primarily because raw ingredients can be cheaper than processed food; the trick is to teach cafeteria cooks around the nation how to buy, store and prepare them. Meanwhile, she says, she's got more local problems to solve--like what to do with all that leftover canned fruit and vegetables. A 6-lb. 10-oz. can of peaches costs just 13?...
Prior to his many teaching and research accomplishments, Atiyah received a bachelor’s and a doctoral degree from Trinity College at Cambridge University. He later returned to Trinity to teach. He also spent three years as a professor of mathematics at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study until...
...Moses left his work on the philosophy of mathematics in order to develop a different way to teach algebra. He is responsible for influencing teaching methods that changed the way students learn higher math. In 2002 he received the James Bryant Conant Award of the Education Commission of the States and two years later won the McGraw-Hill Prize in Education...