Word: dunbar
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...year began testing all 23,000 first-graders using a culture-neutral, language-free assessment that requires no reading, writing or speaking. The result? The number of first-graders screened for gifted placement shot up from some 100 the previous year to nearly 3,000. Says deputy superintendent Antoinette Dunbar of the decision to start testing every first-grader for giftedness: "Sometimes we overlook the very obvious...
...would make the argument, yes, that it is. Robin Dunbar wrote the book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, about how important it was in human evolution to be able to increase group size beyond small bands of related people, important for defense. That defense was originally against predatory animals, then a growing need to defend against other primates and finally against other humans. That may well have selected for humans who had these skills and talents. Evolutionary biologists always beat their heads up against these things. Why do people do things like music? Why do they dance? These...
...opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with of-the-moment social lessons--1994's Brothers and Sisters explored racial tension in post-- Rodney...
...result of Muri’s efforts, 93 potential lightweight oarsmen showed up at the organizational meeting. But from that point on, keeping walk-ons on the team is a battle against attrition. By the first practice, the number of lightweight walk-ons was down to 80.Junior lightweight Dunbar Carpenter—who began rowing as a freshman and was on the second varsity eight last year—remembers his thought process in joining the team.“I’d been pretty athletic my whole life. I ran cross-country in high school, but I doubted...
...Does one start with the polyrhythmic music of West Africa or the primordial tragedy of the blues? Should one start with Paul Dunbar or Toni Morrison?” These are the question Philip Atiba Goff ’99 asked himself eight years ago as he planned the first annual Harvard Black Arts Festival (BAF). And what did he come up with? In his vision, BAF was founded “to remind our artists of their points of origin and to share those origins with our audience.”His vision has proven to be an enduring...