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So Many Hands to Hold in the Classroom – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education

A more and more common trend that seems to be tied to how educational cooperatives (colleges & universities) are becoming more & more like financial corporations who operate via an advertising curriculum that tells clients what they need and what … Continue reading

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The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents

While Lambert, author of “Nonstop,” admires the multitasking undergraduates Harvard attracts, he also worries about the intellectual and emotional costs of such all-consuming busyness. In a turn toward gravitas, he quotes the French film director Jean Renoir’s observation that “the … Continue reading

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