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...long been critical of the U.S News rankings, in part because 25% of a school's score is based on a survey filled in by roughly half of college presidents and other top administrators, who rate schools based on reputation but often only selectively, leaving most of the list blank and unjudged. The peer survey strikes many in higher education as silly. But they believe the rankings have an additional and more nefarious component. Several college presidents have publicly complained that the rankings' emphasis on the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen has led colleges to fight over high-achieving...
...with any blank tableau, Harvard’s first few brushstrokes in Allston, which have been sketched this year, will be the bold outlines for the entire project and shape the experience of Harvard students and faculty and residents of Allston for decades, if not centuries, to come.Harvard has a vision for Allston as an integrated campus that fosters interdisciplinary academics and shares its resources with the community. It is a promising one to which Harvard should adhere. Yet within that overall framework, which Harvard’s Allston Development Group set forth in a master plan in January...
...almost instinctive -- you see an adorable baby, and you start to coo, smile or make a face to elicit some kind of response. But even if you get a blank stare back, rest assured that the tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...
...actively worked to embrace the proposals of the Iraq Study Group and has proposed a comprehensive plan, which sets benchmarks for Iraq’s progress, encourages outreach to Iraq’s neighbors for help, and establishes oversight to correct the mistake of giving the President a blank check for an unplanned...
...hope. The dwindling dream of a successful general education still lies entirely in its implementation, which is in the hands of the new Standing Committee on general education. Although this will allow the system to stray from its original purpose in the long run, the committee’s blank check will empower them to make substantial changes in implementing the new system...