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...similar growth in the percentage of students achieving proficiency has lagged. “Only about two-thirds are proficient,” he said. Criticized by committee members in the past for a “test-oriented” and “autocratic” approach to school policy, Fowler-Finn—who had his superintendent contract renewed by a close committee vote in January—suggested a provision to encourage creativity in school curricula. “Our school system must take advantage of the creativity of teachers and principals...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Brings Up MCAS | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

German Professor Peter J. Burgard rose to read the sentiments of Physics Professor Eric Mazur (“mandatory Q evaluation is just going to serve as another excuse to postpone doing anything of substance and further cement our current approach to teaching”). Burgard said that he believed the Q is an unreliable metric of teacher performance...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Passes Q Reforms | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Suzanne Day, director of federal relations for Harvard in Washington, D.C., said that the current version of the bill fits better with Harvard’s approach to self-evaluation...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Criticizes Updated Higher Ed Bill | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...China is the enemy to them,” said Democrat Elise Liu ’11, criticizing the Republican stance of refusing to join climate change treaties unless developing nations do so as well. “That’s not how we can approach the Kyoto problem...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Political Groups Debate Environmental Policy | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...personal success in the larger context of what her team has accomplished so far, and what it hopes to achieve before this season is over. The Crimson now stands at 22-1-0 overall, and remains the only team in the nation without multiple losses as the playoffs approach. “There are a lot of teams out there who rely on individual players to get the job done,” Cahow said. “It is really 24 people on a mission this year [for Harvard]. I’m just doing my part to contribute...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Milestones Mark Cahow's Weekend | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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