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According to Elhauge, the law colleges will be modeled loosely after the house system at Harvard College-although they will not be residential. Each law college will have a master, who will also teach first year classes, in the hopes that they will be better in touch with first year concerns...
...professor David Westfall, who will serve as a Master of one of the law colleges next year, says many of the masters are not entirely sure what their advising focus should...
...issue [of Master diversity] hasn't been on the agenda officially, but it's been discussed frequently at the Foundation," Ebie said...
...narrow periods when various parts of the brain can be taught various types of skills. What gives the theory special weight is that there is, in fact, a little truth to it--but only very little. When it comes to language--perhaps the most nuanced skill a person can master--the brain does appear to have fertile and less fertile periods. At birth, babies have the potential to learn any language with equal ease, but by six months, they have begun to focus on the one tongue they hear spoken most frequently. Parents can take advantage of this brain plasticity...
...wonder America's swing sets are feeling lonely. With so many roving flashers to elude, so many high-tech skills to master, so many crucial tests to pass and so many anxious parents to reassure, children seem to be playing less and less these days. Even hassled grownups are starting to notice. "We're taking away childhood," says Dorothy Sluss, a professor of early-childhood education at East Tennessee State University. "We don't value play in our society. It has become a four-letter word...