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Harvard University police are investigating a death threat that was apparently emailed to several hundred Harvard affiliates, among others, on Friday afternoon, according to Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven G. Catalano.Addressed to "All students at Harvard," the text of the email included what appeared to be racist language. The email referred to its intended recipients as "slit-eyes." Many, but not all, of the email's intended recipients appear to have Asian surnames.

This TED talk suggests that children can actually just teach themselves if you leave them with computers, which seems to directly contradict a lot of the reading we've done. Perhaps the difference here is the use of mediators and the kids teaching each other?