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Angrist has conducted his own empirical research that delves deeply into issues of employment and education, bringing light — and hard data — to matters such as the effects of education and military service on lifetime earnings, and the impact of class size and many kinds of policy experiments on educational outcomes.
“Effective graduate advising and mentoring are essential components of our mission as educators at MIT. It is a clear opportunity for a change in culture and a shift in power dynamics.” – MIT’s Paula Hammond
Shaping the Work of the Future, an MITx course that has influenced not only a global audience of tens of thousands of enrollees, but also changed MIT’s professor Kochan’s approach to teaching residential courses on campus.
A vocabulary difference of 30 million words may sound like an insurmountable barrier between children of different socioeconomic backgrounds — but what if the solution to close that gap was as simple as encouraging dialogue between parent and child?
During six months at an orphanage in Haiti, senior Eli Brooks introduced children to engineering product design, and uncovered a passion for teaching and life.
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MIT’s Laila Shabir founded Girls Make Games, a series of summer camps, workshops, and game jams aimed at bringing together and empowering young women interested in video games.
At the MIT Edgerton Center, educators are quietly transforming the way biology is taught in schools.
“The report recommends that educators build on the positive aspects of their pandemic learning experience in the years ahead and supports increased student independence to cultivate a safe and healthy environment that is more conducive to learning.”