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| 1 vs. 100 = American game show pitting one contestant against a 100-person “mob”
| Alan Schoenfeld = Mathematics educator documenting persistence in problem solving
| Alex Williams = Middle-class child in Lareau’s study; example of concerted cultivation
| Alexander Bickel = Constitutional scholar; example in white-shoe firm exclusion
| Annette Lareau = Sociologist who described “concerted cultivation” parenting
| Anglican church = Christian communion in the Church of England tradition
| Avianca Flight 052 = 1990 Colombian flight that crashed after fuel exhaustion near New York
| Beal Avenue = Site of the University of Michigan Computer Center
| Beatles = English rock band; played marathon Hamburg club sets
| Berlin’s Academy of Music = Conservatory referenced in Ericsson’s violin practice study
| Bill Gates = American technologist; Microsoft cofounder
| Bill Joy = Computer scientist; Sun Microsystems cofounder
| Borough Park = Brooklyn neighborhood; Joe Flom’s early home
| Cambridge = University city in England; Oppenheimer studied there
| Carol S. Dweck = Stanford psychologist; author of Mindset
| C-Cubed = Computing company providing timesharing access
| Christopher Langan = American autodidact with extremely high IQ
| Claudia Mueller = Psychologist studying praise and motivation
| Condé Nast tower = Office tower referenced as Skadden’s headquarters site
| Crew Resource Management = Aviation training emphasizing clear, assertive cockpit communication
| Daisy Nation = Jamaican schoolteacher and mother of Joyce
| Daniel Levitin = Neuroscientist who summarized deliberate practice research
| David Greenberg = Aviation executive who led Korean Air training reforms
| Dov Cohen = Social psychologist on Southern culture-of-honor research
| Education Endowment Foundation = UK charity funding education trials
| Education Week = American K–12 education news outlet
| Erling Boe = Education researcher linked to TIMSS questionnaire analysis
| Frank Corcoran = KIPP math teacher noted for extended board work
| Geert Hofstede = Dutch social psychologist; developed cultural dimensions theory
| Gifted Children = Academic journal on gifted education
| Hamburg = German port city; Beatles’ early performance base
| Harewood = Community in Saint Catherine, Jamaica
| Harvard Business Review = Management magazine by Harvard Business Publishing
| Harvard Law School = Law school of Harvard University
| Herbert Wachtell = Founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
| J. K. Campbell = Anthropologist writing on honor cultures
| J. Robert Oppenheimer = American physicist; studied at Cambridge
| Jamaica = Caribbean island nation
| Karl L. Alexander = Sociologist conducting summer learning research
| Katie Brindle = Working-class child in Lareau’s study; example of deference
| Kimpo International Airport = International airport in South Korea
| Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) = U.S. charter school network emphasizing extended time
| Kmart = American retail chain
| Korean Air Flight 801 = 1997 Boeing 747 crash near Guam
| Lakeside School’s Mothers’ Club = Parent group funding Lakeside’s teletype link
| Lethbridge Broncos = Canadian junior ice hockey team
| Lewis Terman = Stanford psychologist; pioneered gifted child longitudinal studies
| Liam Hudson = British psychologist researching intelligence and creativity
| Little, Brown and Company = American publishing imprint
| Lou Gehrig Junior High School = South Bronx middle school building housing early KIPP
| Louis Borgenicht = Immigrant dressmaker and entrepreneur in New York
| Major Junior A = Top tier of Canadian junior ice hockey
| Martin Lipton = Founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
| Medicine Hat Tigers = Canadian junior ice hockey team
| Memorial Cup = Canadian major junior hockey championship
| Microsoft = American technology company
| Mindset: The New Psychology of Success = Psychology book by Carol S. Dweck
| Mudge Rose = White-shoe law firm
| Nan Ling = Mountain range in South China
| Nature = Leading international science journal
| New York ATC = New York air traffic control services
| Nimitz Hill = Elevated area near Guam’s airport
| Nobel = Prestigious international prize for achievement
| OECD = Intergovernmental economic organization
| PISA 2018 = 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment cycle
| Power distance = Cultural dimension describing acceptance of hierarchical inequality
| Practical intelligence = Tacit social skill enabling institutional navigation
| Publishers Weekly = American book trade magazine
| Raven’s Progressive Matrices = Nonverbal intelligence test
| Regina Borgenicht = Immigrant dressmaker and entrepreneur in New York
| Richard Nisbett = Social psychologist on culture-of-honor experiments
| Roger Barnsley = Canadian psychologist who identified hockey birthdate clustering
| Saint Catherine = Parish of Jamaica
| Saint Hilda’s = Jamaican girls’ secondary school
| Satya Nadella = CEO of Microsoft
| Seattle = City in Washington state
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom = American multinational law firm
| South Bronx = Borough area of New York City
| South China’s Pearl River Delta = Region of South China
| Stanford University = American research university
| Stanislas Dehaene = Cognitive neuroscientist studying numerical cognition
| Sun Microsystems = American technology company
| The Atlantic = American magazine
| TIMSS = International math and science assessment study
| Townsend Harris High School = New York City public high school
| Ute Fischer = Linguist studying aircraft crew communication
| University of Michigan = American public research university
| University of Washington = Public research university in Seattle
| Vancouver Giants = Canadian junior ice hockey team
| Vancouver, British Columbia = City in the Canadian province of British Columbia
| W. M. MacMillan = South African historian
| Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz = American law firm
| White-shoe = Term for elite, traditionally WASP-dominated professional firms
| William Ford = Ancestor in Jamaican family lineage
| #default = Hi reader, have a great day! 😎
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