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...That perseverance eventually paid off. Shan went on to get a Ph.D. in business at the University of California, Berkeley, and teach at the prestigious Wharton business school?and it served him well in pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says...
Johansen, who has previously taught at Brown and Princeton, is expected to teach a course in the fall...
Your story on women and the sciences was a wake-up call to anyone who is hanging on to a one-size-fits-all view of teaching math and scientific subjects. Research confirms what perceptive teachers know: different people (whether they differ by gender, age or simply nature's diversity) learn at different times and in different ways. We cannot cling to a naive assumption that most students will learn in the same way if they just apply themselves. We know how to teach mathematics for all students--by using not just symbols but strategies that target visual and perceptive...
That perseverance eventually paid off. Shan went on to get a Ph.D. in business at the University of California, Berkeley, and teach at the prestigious Wharton business school--and it served him well in pulling off one of the most groundbreaking investments ever made in China. In May Newbridge, based in Fort Worth, Texas, agreed to purchase nearly 18% of Shenzhen Development Bank for $160 million, making the fund the first foreign investor to take management control of a Chinese bank. The tortuous negotiations took two long years. "There are few people I know who have the same tenacity," says...
These points about meritocracy, education, equality, and democracy inspire the following ideas to nurture participatory democracy in schools. First, schools that practice, rather than simply espouse, participatory democracy do not assume that a few individuals make the decisions while the others in the school community study physics, teach classes, clean floors, or serve meals. If democracy entails sharing in the making of history or decision-making through everyday life, rather than when an election rolls around, then schools need to be democratized so that all a school’s participants—including students, teachers, and administrators, but also...