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...don’t know what they teach these kids at Harvard,” retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches said. Riches’ son Jimmy, a firefighter, died on 9/11...
...applaud the energy team for funding a verifiable renewable energy project,” said Heather A. Henriksen, the director of the Harvard Office of Sustainability. “The scale [of the purchase] can teach us about wind technology, because we’re also about being a living laboratory, learning so we can encourage others...
...their origins. The Silk Road Project—whose five-year residency at Harvard culminated last Thursday evening with a thrilling performance and ceremony in Memorial Church—is an antidote to this superficiality of the multicultural society. By using expert artists and scholars, the Project seeks to teach communities worldwide about the human commonalities and peculiarities that cultural exchange brings to light.The project was born out of a series of conversations between cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and Harvard humanities professors in 1998 about exploring cultural connections through music. Ma sought virtuoso musicians from...
...recent report found that 60 percent of teachers did not feel prepared to teach after graduating from education school. An important step toward remedying this problem would be to introduce more practical training into the teacher education process. To deal with classroom management—which many teachers have cited as a challenge—especially at struggling schools, teachers should be exposed to a substantial amount of hands-on classroom training to improve their ability to nurture and develop the skills of their students...
Alternative programs such as Teach for America have shown the value of giving teachers immediate classroom experience and should be noted as an example of the value of learning through doing. As education schools attempt to reform and improve their methods, they should consider incorporating the ideas of TFA and the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which places novice teachers in struggling districts...