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LAOP 2020 · No. 07
Adlai Wertman; David Banks; Mark Nemec
When you spend all the years from kindergarten through 12th grade simply preparing to take a test, you're not engaged in real learning.
David Banks
Fairfield University president Mark Nemec opened our higher education day talking about scaling intimacy while honoring a 500-year Jesuit tradition. David Banks, founder of the Eagle Academy for Young Men in New York City, told how one student's complaint about a cigarette billboard across from school became a lesson in every class. Adlai Wertman of USC urged universities to stop defining success for their students, and to change for first-generation students rather than expect them to fit the old model.
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