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...force each school to become an entrepreneurial competitor for students. It would change the American public school system from one that emphasizes rote learning to a system that encourages and tests for creative and critical thinking. It would establish new incentives-lots more money and more control over teaching methods-to lure the nation's top college graduates into teaching, with bonuses for those willing to teach in the poorest neighborhoods. It would encourage a longer school day and longer school year and would fund universal preschool, and it would do all this, allegedly, for $67 billion less than...
...must be willing to say to the unions, We're with you when it comes to building a floor-the highest possible minimum-wage standard for teachers-but we don't want you building ceilings on merit pay or walls to limit hiring, firing, where and how long teachers teach...
...tutor and chair of its pre-medical advisory committee. His wife, Laura, is a senior attorney in the law office for the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and McLean Hospital, and has served as chair of Currier House's pre-law advisory committee. Together, they teach a popular House seminar, Currier 79, "Medicine, Law, and Ethics: An Introduction...
...Nevertheless. Shleifer re-emerged this spring as a sought-after instructor among undergraduates. He teamed up with Professor of Economics David I. Laibson ’88 to teach a course on psychology and economics that had to be lotteried because of over-enrollment...
...Andrei Shleifer ’82, the economist accused of making investments in Russia in the early 1990s while simultaneously advising its government on economic reform, returned to Harvard to teach a popular undergraduate course...