Word: actualizations
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...have, and should continue to have, complete freedom. But professors do not deserve this absolute autonomy when it comes to teaching. Burgard is naïve to think that faculty self-governance in the area of teaching is equivalent to faculty self-evaluation. It is hard to gauge the actual level of faculty self-evaluation at the College, be it faculty members’ evaluating their own courses or each others’. More importantly, there is a tremendous difference between a professor’s and a student’s opinion of a course’s pedagogy...
...campus on both of these issues, engaging with both sides of these debates is an important first step in preparing for life outside the Harvard bubble. It might not be as comfortable as reminiscing with friends in the Adams Upper Common Room, but maybe then we will have an actual reason to pat each other on the back...
...Core Curriculum, the Task Force’s thinking goes, focuses too strongly on “ways of knowing” and too little on actual knowledge. So far so good; there is undoubtedly a certain breadth and depth of knowledge that every graduate ought to have...
...many question why the Pakistani military would strike a madrassa, the sole educational opportunity available in the impoverished district - particularly on a day when they were due to open peace talks with the area's tribal elders and militants. ABC News reported Monday that al-Zawahiri was the actual target of the operation, and that it was launched by a U.S. predator drone, not a Pakistani helicopter...
...Virginia Senator George Allen finally comes up with ammo against opponent James Webb: icky sex scenes from Webb's novels about the Vietnam War. They're perverted, they're gross, they're ... from a novel. Usually when politicians dismiss an attack as "fiction," they mean true lies, not, well, actual fiction. Then again, when your standard for "credible" is a possible 2008 Allen run for President...