Results for “Students for a Democratic Society”

…havior is what they will have witnessed. Moreover, | am proud of the interactions | have had at both Case and ASU, with students, colleagues and staff of all genders and ethnicities. | have worked hard to support them, mentor them, and treat them with respect. | treat others as r...

…r nationwide launch in 2017. ° Poetry in America’s many initiatives to reach Middle and High School teachers and their students are taking root. Our first online course for Middle and High School Teachers, Poetry of the City, will launch this Spring with the Harvard Graduate Sch...

…ive neuroscientist Sara Bengtsson, devised an experiment in which she manipulated positive and negative expectations of students while their brains were scanned and tested their performance on cognitive tasks. To induce expectations of success, she primed college students with wo...

…ethods enhanced by technology. Unlike most computer-based education programs, which rely solely on computers and burden students with mechanical “point and click” exercises, k12 uses the computer as only one among many complementary tools to open children’s minds to the best book...

…formances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads workshops for students, and partners with leading cultural institutions to create educational materials and programs. The Project’s ongoing affiliation with Harvard Universi...

… to me with questions. When she asked about advice for after graduation | DID tell her she was different than the other students in her year. The rest of them were interested in going on to graduate school, but she was interested in science communication so | told her that she m...

Sadly, Keynes’s predictions did not come true. Although productivity did indeed increase, the system—possibly inherent in a market economy—did not result in humans working much shorter hours. Rather, what happened is what the anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber describes a...

23 that Atheism is false, and tends to the dissolution of society, than Marcus Aurelius believed the same things of Christianity.” If even such a ruler as Marcus Aurelius could be so monumentally wrong, then no dictator, it would seem, no matter how benevolent, could ever ultim...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians up’ the agreement between British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler that resulted in Germany's seizure of parts and eventually all of Czecho- slovakia. This clearly falsified the h...

…nners and engineers worry about evaluation of what they propose and produce. All of these people could combine to teach students how to evaluate. This is very important part of functioning in any society. First College Year Summary It would be my contention that a freshman year...

… the central organizing principle was a machine and that is kind of silly. Who suffers from this state of affairs? The students, of course. When a department’s faculty meets to decide what courses students must take in order to major in their field, it is not a sage conversation...

…wback is its insufficiency. Some people have no shame. In the research my colleagues and I have conducted on first-year students, involving games that require cooperation, we have found that shame does not encourage cooperation among those players who are least cooperative. This...

… Society held in Tunis, Negroponte unveiled the concept of a $100 laptop computer, The Children’s Machine, designed for students in the developing world. The price has increased to US$180, however. The project is part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit org...

…hat distribute propaganda about Islam and Islamic history which then filters down throughout textbooks for even younger students. It includes control over most of the nation’s mosques and local Imams guiding the mess ages engaged Muslims are receiving. Most troublesome are the Mu...

…hat distribute propaganda about Islam and Islamic history which then filters down throughout textbooks for even younger students. It includes control over most of the nation's mosques and local Imams guiding the mess ages engaged Muslims are receiving. Most troublesome are the Mu...