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Breslow, Lori – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
In the late 1990s, the physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had a problem. The department was responsible for teaching the two required physics courses that are part of the General Institute Requirements (GIRs), MIT's core curriculum--Physics I (mechanics, or in MIT parlance, 8.01) and Physics II (electricity and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Core Curriculum, Science Interests, Mechanics (Physics)
Johnson, Brian – Independent School, 2014
Helping all students find academic success is a central tenet of independent schools. But at many independent schools, mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that a persistent achievement gap exists between white and Asian-American students and their Latino and African-American counterparts. In 2007, Rebecca Upham, head of school at Buckingham…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Racial Differences, Evidence
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Jellinek, Michael S. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
In this article, the author describes "Primary Supervision", a seminar he has led for approximately 20 years, which is designed for the entire class of nine first-year residents in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital. The seminar meets for 1 hour each week throughout the first year. Through 900…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Children, Adolescents, Psychiatry