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...analyze Chicago??s test scores, Levitt looked for trends typical of a cheating teacher and developed an algorithm to identify them. Levitt—working with Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian A. Jacob ’92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired...
...replacing people who have retired over the last decade” and raising the number of senior mathematics professors back up to historically higher levels. Along with Yau, the department has also hired away MIT’s Michael J. Hopkins and the University of Chicago??s Dennis Gaitsgory, who both specialize in topology and representational theory. All three will become Harvard professors on July...
Dawson’s announcement that he will return to the University of Chicago??where he taught before Harvard offered him tenure in 2002—comes on the heels of the departure of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Marcyliena Morgan to Stanford this January...
...have an extremely strong program in American politics, particularly recent politics. Professor Dawson’s addition will help make us a really extraodinarily strong group in that area of research,” said Dali Yang, chair of Chicago??s Political Science department...
...alumni, we have a right to be concerned. The University should, in the words of the University of Chicago??s Kalven Report, be a home of critics, rather than a critic itself. Perhaps, when a president speaks on politics—even off-the-record, and in a personal capacity—that barrier is crossed. Yet whether the subject is women in science, Afro-American studies, or Paulin, Summers’ comments have been subject to withering criticism from faculty and students alike. What intelligent person could read the papers and conclude that all of Harvard thinks...