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What Harvard's Derek Bok too politely termed Our Underachieving Colleges 2006 is a red flag for a society that depends on brain power to fuel the economy and help solve festering societal problems.
Lumina's Degree Profile: A co-author's view Daniel de Vise 2011
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Over the past week or so, I have been reading a book by Derek Bok called Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More.
Reading for Older Kids Matt Johnston 2006
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Over the past week or so, I have been reading a book by Derek Bok called Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More.
Archive 2006-08-01 Matt Johnston 2006
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Sure all the Whiney Underachieving Liberal Democrats want the rest of us who planned well, saved/worked our way thru college, thought out our career choices to pay for them!
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Underachieving ensemble comedy arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow.
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In Our Underachieving Colleges (CT review still on its way: DD to blame if I never get round to it) Derek Bok claims that the standard assumptions within most departments in research universities is that the undergraduate curriculum is for attracting and then teaching majors, and, further, that our attention to the majors should be shaped by the aim of preparing them well for graduate school.
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Underachieving kids are simply not allowed to languish as they did before.
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Underachieving kids are simply not allowed to languish as they did before.
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As for educational standards, we are predominately cranking out two things in this country as a product of the public school system: Underachieving test-taking machines and dropouts.
Former NAC Chair Jack Schmitt Quits Planetary Society Over New Roadmap - NASA Watch 2008
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Underachieving kids are simply not allowed to languish, as they did before.
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