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Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, our readers should be able to hold us accountable. You should be able to sift through court records and assess the accuracy of our articles. And other newsgathering organizations should be able to verify—or second-guess—our reporting. Indeed, after the LSD arrest, the weekly Harvard Independent chose to follow up on our coverage—and to include more background information about the Quincy sophomore than The Crimson had initially provided. In order to thoroughly double-check our facts—in order to search court records...
...area universities said in their speeches to the commission that standardized testing would hinder educational innovation. Boston University President Robert A. Brown told the commission that a school’s own regulation of faculty expectations and grading policies, not a nationally administered test, is the appropriate way to assess educational quality. Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow said in his speech that standardized testing would not address the differences between institutions. “What works at Harvard or Tufts would not work at MIT, would not work at UMass,” he said in an interview yesterday...
...multitasking devices, social scientists and educators are just beginning to assess their impact, but the researchers already have some strong opinions. The mental habit of dividing one's attention into many small slices has significant implications for the way young people learn, reason, socialize, do creative work and understand the world. Although such habits may prepare kids for today's frenzied workplace, many cognitive scientists are positively alarmed by the trend. "Kids that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman...
...difficult to assess just how useful the women’s center will be to the student body. Only 219 students responded to the UC survey, and some of those who did respond were adamantly opposed to it, ourselves included. With such a small constituency, it is hard to understand why the space—be it social, for student groups, or for centralizing resources—should be devoted to women’s focused activities and not the student body at large...
...father’s side, was an important part of Bras’ upbringing. If something went wrong with the car when her family was on a road trip, her father would recite aloud the steps he had been taught for dealing with an airborne crisis. “Assess situation,” he would say. “Alert commanding officer.” And during her high school tennis matches, he would shout traditional military encouragements to her in Dutch. “Pain is good! Bleed more!” he would say. Sarvis feels that...