Host hello, or scharf. It is wonderful to have you here today. I found your book fascinating. It was a terrific read and i am thrilled to be here. You know, one of the great things about being here and talking to you is i get to ask you about the big questions. It questions that most people would not have to answer. That is the real fun of this book. So your book is called the copernicus complex. So maybe you could tell us what that is. Guest absolutely. Tanks, ingrid. So, the copernicus complex is really a phrase that is trying to capture one of the aspects of what i think is perhaps the biggest question we as a species can ask. And sometimes we ask it nonscientific way. The book is really about the scientific question of whether or not we are alone in the universe. Title the copernicus complex is the way we feel about ourselves and a complex that we carry around with us that on the one hand from copernicus we learned that we are not central, not special in any way and that idea has p
We provide training. We deal with issues of implicit bias , which is a huge issue of why people do what they do and getting to understand the impact of it. We have the department of justice has a Civil Rights Division which everyone is aware of with pattern of practice investigations, most recently the agreement in cleveland. The ferguson report. We have a lot of services. And i think the way we respond to crisis, the way we respond to whats happening in the country is, one, to provide assistance to communities. I think the attorney general said it best that we cannot federalize local Law Enforcement, and thats not the intent. Theres a reason why would why we created these 16,000 departments, it was about local control. But we can help set up standards by which the 16,000 agencies should be able to follow. And we should assure that whether its two officers or 20,000, that they are engaging in constitutional policing and that the impact to the community is the same. We can also provide
You this exchange illustrates the issues the task force struggled with and the reason they focused on these concrete recommendations for example calling on cms, the model, not to scale hennepin to model hennepinlike examples so that we can in a deliberate fashion uncover this Common Element that needs to be there and the models that can be tested and proved. We can scale in a way it is almost as if hennepin is priming the pump, giving us a little bit of an example. What are the mechanisms and tools that we have for access like, for example, innovation grant awards, etc. , that can help us responsibly understand the attributes of a new model moving forward . I want to get to our audience questions. If anybody has a burning additional comment about the conversation we have been having yes. Only to mention that in passing that a previous study we put out a year ago called training doctors were preventionoriented care, we havent talked about that too much, either, but it was headed by dan
Why are you engaged in this work . Are you engaged . We are really excited about this project. We have joined women to promote and advance. It opens a number of possibilities for us. How can we use these Digital Technologies and learn fm them to change education on our alone campus. What weighs will we see based on the experience of these mass courses. How can that transform in cambridge and boston. Secondly, we see it as a way to get harvard ideas and harvard teaching out to a broader world and way to accumulate a lot of data that can be an extraordinary resource for anybody who like to use that material to ask questions about the nature of human learning and how it ought to be structured. On the point about spreading learning to the rest of the world, i have a very moving reaction to one bit of data. One of the pilot courses. When i was in india, i met with people in india who were wanting to interact with harvard. There is a need for engagement with our schools public health. We hav
How do we begin to address the challenges that this has had a number of exciting innovations . They are trying to in able research, uniting that with Business School faculty that shows how you lead an organization like a School District or school. And what they can add to train educational leaders who can transform systems. This has been a popular degree. It has wonderful candidates who go through its. This is just one contribution our school is making and others as well. We need across the country to have a unified approach to the policy that is embedded in our k12 system. We did a report last year a few months ago about china and indias investment, the rapid level in which they are investing from prek through college. There will have more in china and any of them the entire u. S. Work force. Were focused on a global economy. Those from harvard are competing globally with students from china, germany, brazil. Tavis that transform the way we think about education . Do you think your ro