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Drafted for World War II his sophomore year at Harvard, Wagner headed to Seoul where he worked with a U.S. military government aiming to transition South Korea back into independence...
...honor the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Korean studies pioneer Edward W. Wagner ’49 at Harvard, Korean history professor Sun Joo Kim delivered a lecture yesterday about his lasting impact on Korean studies...
...really significant for all of us in Korean studies to remember in essence where we came from, how Korean studies was established, and how far we’ve come in that time,” said Susan L. Laurence, assistant director of the Korea Institute, which Wagner founded...
With a newfound interest in Korea, Wagner returned to Harvard to finish his Bachelor’s degree before earning a Masters degree in 1951, and a Ph.D. in History and East Asian languages in 1959. He began teaching at Harvard...
...receptacles filled by the social norms and mores of their time. In “The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do About It,” Tony Wagner, the co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, exhibits the same concerns that plagued Mills a half-century ago. According to Wagner, all of our schools are failing our children, not just those failing to teach proficiency on standardized tests. Rather...