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...Sports, in some respects more than academics, also teach the virtue of patience: talent alone does not always assure victory—it must be cultivated, refined, and tirelessly practiced. And even then, all the innumerable variables that come into play in a match—just as in life—cannot be accounted for ahead of time. The outcome of a game then, while supremely important, is not the sole measure of the competitors’ worth—the ability to realize that in both sports and life is a virtue neither acquired nor honored often enough...
...were constantly studying community problems but not actually doing anything to solve them. So I formed Students Serve, a national nonprofit organization run by college-student volunteers, to provide service grants to students. At this point, our grants have enabled college students to start a shelter for abused women, teach art classes to inner-city youth, create interactive history lessons and begin a wheelchair-recycling program. We the people can choose to make a meaningful difference by serving our nation and fellow human beings. Angela Perkey, WILLIAMSBURG...
...result, imagination was quickly disappearing. Mills worried that Americans, increasingly unable to cultivate themselves, were morphing into passive receptacles filled by the social norms and mores of their time. In “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It,” Tony Wagner, the co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, exhibits the same concerns that plagued Mills a half-century ago. According to Wagner...
...charter school movement has been sweeping across urban public education for the past 15 years, and one of its primary drivers, at least in recent years, has been Teach For America, which recruits top college graduates for two-year stints in high-need communities. Indeed, TFA alumni are responsible for some of the nation’s most successful school networks, including the Knowledge Is Power Program and YES Prep Public Schools...
...thought, ‘You know, if I’m going to teach this I really ought to go see how it works in practice as well,’” he says...