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Michael Lucatorto

Ask the Harvard MBA » What's the value of business school? - 0 views

  • For me, I’d say that I got about 1/3 of the value of HBS from the actual classroom learning, 1/3 from networking, and 1/3 from the alumni network (I didn’t bother doing any recruiting, since I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, and didn’t want to waste my time interviewing for jobs I’d never accept).
  • For me, I’d say that I got about 1/3 of the value of HBS from the actual classroom learning, 1/3 from networking, and 1/3 from the alumni network (I didn’t bother doing any recruiting, since I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, and didn’t want to waste my time
Joan Erickson

The Case Against Summer Vacation - TIME - 0 views

  • With billions of dollars for improved education bulging from last year's economic-stimulus package
  • Indianapolis Algebra Project
  • Phalen saw the existing public schools as a roadblock, not a career path
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  • Phalen hires only certified teachers and chooses them on the basis of talent, not seniority
  • Advantage launched last year, and its scholars improved their performance on state math and reading tests by an average of 14 percentage points
  • Can we really entrust something so important to a haphazard network of camp counselors, volunteers and entrepreneurs?
Diane Gusa

BrainBerg Child Development Center: Multiple Intelligence - Where Kids are understood b... - 0 views

  •  Our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence.
  • equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live
  • many children who have these gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for them in school.
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  • learning disabled,"
  • linguistic or logical-mathematical classroom.
  • lessons in a wide variety of ways
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