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...want world-class scientists at all costs, we need to place our best and brightest students with our most qualified math and science teachers and relieve those teachers of the frustration of trying to teach students who are unable to master the subjects...
...universities are fantastically hierarchical places that are ever more caught up in competing with one another for faculty stars, whom they lure less with money and perquisites than with freedom to conduct research, which usually means light teaching loads and lots of graduate students to do scut work. Summers, scion of a family in the academic discipline with the highest pay and lowest workload of them all--economics--grew up and succeeded spectacularly in this culture. Harvard on his watch enthusiastically raided other universities for top talent. Its professors are among the highest paid in American academe; they teach only...
...acting like a majority. What kind of U.S. would he prefer? "An America of the Enlightenment, of human rights, of democratic dreams and achievements," he says. "This America will definitely overcome its present crisis." And once his book is published in Europe later this year, perhaps this America can teach people there some lessons, like how to behave in queues...
...Pennsylvania in the first-ever Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program, and am already using this practical science to help transform the lives of my clients, my family, and myself. I am an executive coach, author, and motivational speaker. I see every day how important it is to teach people about goal-setting theory, the science of hope, the importance of volitional behavior to change well-being, and how many areas of one’s life are affected by learning how to create more engagement, flow, happiness and gratitude in one’s life...
...Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson did not begin her life expecting to have such a prodigious title, or indeed with any expectations about a life in academia. Monson loved music and was playing the trumpet by age ten, though her youthful training did not always teach the most hopeful lessons. She reflects ruefully, “I was pretty good, but when you play the trumpet, you quickly learn that the masterworks of Western music are not for the trumpet.” Monson soon found that her instrument had a wider range in other forms...