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...certain “Machiavellian” quality he was picking up on in the text. Someone else used the margins of James Joyce’s Dubliners to observe how “very Irish” it all was. And a reader of my German history textbook circled every single word in a wholly unimportant paragraph, and then wrote “Hitler was a man” in the margin...
Since N. Gregory Mankiw returned to Harvard to teach the College’s introductory economics class, 2,278 students have filled his weekly lectures, many picking up the former Bush advisor’s best-selling textbook, “Principle of Economics” along the way.So, what has professor of economics Mankiw done with those profits?“I don’t talk about personal finances,” Mankiw said, adding that he has never considered giving the proceeds to charity.But in recent years, other professors have found different solutions to the sometimes awkward...
...detailing the impact of such efforts on student learning outcomes. Ultimately, public schooling, be it race-conscious or not, must be primarily focused on the overall quality of a student’s education. Such an end entails far more than just the success of an individual teacher or textbook, but the entirety of the educational experience—ties to the community, the racial diversity of a classroom, and the equality of educational programs. And until these goals are accessible to all, race-conscious policies may be necessary to ensure that children of every race receive an adequate education...
...psychiatrist prescribes him Ritalin to remedy his “concentration problem,” Charlie is struck by an ingenious idea: create his own psychiatric practice in the stalls of the boys’ bathroom. The way in which he obtains the necessary drugs—memorizing textbook symptoms, then rattling them off to his clueless psychiatrist for a prescription—is as improbable as the advice he dispenses to his insecure classmates. This counseling includes the gem: “Sometimes people say things and mean something else.” As might be expected, Charlie soon...
...huge propaganda coup for extremists plotting to end centuries of the British way of life.” This evidently rash reaction to Williams’ comments was also implicitly Islamophobic and intolerant. It was indicative of a reluctance to embrace plurality in favor of the textbook adherence to either the authority of the Anglican Church or the norm of secular culture...