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Harvard is home to some of the world??s greatest minds on the subject of education. We have experts on the history and economics of education, education policy, pedagogy, primary schools, higher education, and educational endowments—just to name a few areas. Unfortunately, these scholars are scattered across a variety of departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School of Government, the Business School, and, of course, the Education School. The same goes for many other topics in the social sciences—from urban studies to racial discrimination, inequality to immigration...
...leading experts on international economics presented visions of China’s past and future to a packed Fong Auditorium on Friday night, projecting what may lie in store for one of the world??s largest and fastest growing economies. Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 began the event, titled “The Chinese Economy: Trade and Investment,” by focusing on the social and political implications of China’s standard-of-living increases over the past 25 years. “It is very clear that...
...invited Summers to address the Regents in private, without the opportunity for any meaningful public scrutiny or debate. The plan was apparently to honor Summers as an “expert” on higher education by giving him privileged access to the governing body of one of the world??s premier public educational institutions...
...perfect way to escape the heat of summer for 90 minutes of frigid air-conditioning. That’s right—I’m talking about the museum blockbuster, that particular brand of glitzy exhibit put up each June and July in the world??s most renowned museums. Long, snaking lines for admission to the latest art shows prove that the summer blockbuster phenomenon isn’t limited to the movie house. More people visited museums in England in 2005 than went to football matches, and according to the U.K. Department for Culture, Media...
...retardation, deafness, and skeletal and superficial deformation. Riedl’s will be one of 15 contemporary documentaries screening in Cambridge this weekend as part of the United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival. The films, chosen from around 400 submissions last October, deal with present-day issues around the world??from civil war in Colombia and the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to an HIV-positive orphan in China and a group of Sierra Leonean refugee musicians. The opening screening will take place at the Kennedy School of Government. The subsequent 14 films, grouped into...