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While educators debate whether there is a "boy crisis" that warrants a wholesale change in how to teach, colleges are quietly stripping the pastels from brochures and launching Xbox tournaments to try to close the gap in the quality and quantity of boys applying. "It's a gross generalization that slacker boys get in over high-performing girls," says Jennifer Delahunty, dean of admissions at Kenyon College, "but developmentally, girls bring more to the table than boys, and the disparity has gotten greater in recent years...
...Ivies for “stealing” teachers from their more minimally endowed peers is to imply that these professors are the dominion of public universities. Yet, these professors do not belong to public institutions any more than they do to the Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because of the intellectual opportunities that such positions afford. Indeed, the meritocratic sensibilities of American education dictate that the best educators should teach at the strongest schools and for the highest pay. It is this critical concentration of bright minds and prolific resources that both fosters...
...philosophy of life, compared to only 20 percent today,” Engell said. “Today, the reason given by most students is to be well-off financially.” Director of the Humanities Center Homi K. Bhabha disagreed with Kronman that research interferes with teaching. “I don’t divest myself of my critical ideals before I go to the classroom,” Bhabha said. “The research ideal doesn’t cramp me, it allows me to translate.” Another issue Kronman addressed...
...crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article in the Boston Globe described the process of recruitment...
...Actually the process was much more asking us for more information about what we intended to do,” said Harvard Medical School professor Jon C. Clardy who will co-teach “Molecules of Life” with chemistry professor David R. Liu next fall. “They really didn’t make any suggestions...