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...proving just as difficult to achieve. Companies try all sorts of things to attract and promote minorities and women. They hire organizational psychologists. They staff booths at diversity fairs. They host dim-sum brunches and salsa nights. The most popular--and expensive--approach is diversity training, or workshops to teach executives to embrace the benefits of a diverse staff. Too bad it doesn't work...
...marked by policies, protests, and attempts to personalize anonymous stories by connecting them to representative faces.Tonight, students will gather on the steps of Memorial Church, marking the last of this year’s Take Back the Night events. These students are continuing the recent tradition of trying to teach their peers about sexual assault—an effort that has been transformed, under the direction of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), into a standard aspect of the Harvard student experience.BURDEN OF PROOFNowadays Harvard broaches the subject at the start of freshman year, requiring freshmen...
...high school students in history and science by encouraging them to trace their own ancestry. For his scholarship, Gates has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Wired magazine, and the National Arts Club. “I’m developing a new way to teach African-American history and science for middle and high school kids,” said Gates, the Fletcher University professor. “History will involve people learning how to do their own family tree and the DNA component will be testing all the kids to see where they?...
...states to agree to a demanding set of standards for K-12 education. Right now, according to an analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, only nine states earn a B-minus or above for what they teach...
...their hyperactive energy, Harvard student groups are still victim to inertia—it’s not easy to teach an old club new tricks. So it should come as little surprise that one year after the administration’s transplanting of office space from Yard basements to the new Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), the paradise of happy extracurricular group members commingling in a modern community has not yet materialized according to its planners’ hopes. And yet, in its reallocation of space at SOCH for the upcoming year, the administration has apparently decided...