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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a sense among us that we need to do a better job in teaching people how to think using quantitative methods far beyond what the present requirement actually defines," McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis said in an interview after the 10-year Core report was released...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Despite the hassles of re-evaluating the requirement, Core officials say they are optimistic that new and better ways to teach quantitative reasoning will eventually be found...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...While it is probably true that no student would give priority to learning the material over passing the tests, it is also true that with the more difficult tests of this year, the two issues are not so easily separable as in the past. It may be possible that better tests, perhaps including essay questions, and some revisions to the current content will result in a stronger focus on learning the material...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: The QRR: Stumbling Toward the Future | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...masters themselves disagreed over how much social engineering was necessary to ensure "diversity," and because the masters' plan was to be unequally applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working for Inclusion | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...founding director of the policy-planning staff, George Kennan, wrote an article in another erudite quarterly, Foreign Affairs, on the need for the West to pursue a policy of "containment" against Soviet Communism. President Bush has spoken of moving "beyond containment." Fukuyama has gone his boss one better, proclaiming that we may be witnessing "not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Beginning of Nonsense | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

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