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...Daily Free Press. A national campaign called “Longfellow Across America” has been launched to push Americans to remember and revive Longfellow’s memory. According to their Web site, the effort has sent Longfellow “Activity Kits” for classroom and library use to all interested schools in the U.S. named after Longfellow, contacted regional and national weathermen with quotes from Longfellow’s poetry appropriate for all types of weather forecasts, and ensured the production and distribution of a first class stamp honoring the poet, which will debut...
...Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus, the report calls for a stronger link between the endeavors students pursue inside and outside the classroom. Those studying poverty, for example, absorb more if they also volunteer at a homeless shelter, suggests Bok, whose 2005 book, Our Underachieving Colleges, cites a finding that students remember just 20% of the content of class lectures a week later...
...such students a Ph.D. would be to start down a slippery slope of almost Orwellian intolerance. Nevertheless, universities have a responsibility to their students to carefully vet candidates for scientific teaching posts to ensure that privately held beliefs incompatible with scientific theory do not make their way into the classroom. Still, we believe that in the end, scientists should be judged on their work—not on their personal beliefs...
...Life SwappingResidential life isn’t the only novel thing about American college life for the exchange students. Like many freshmen during orientation week, Mason was blown away by the extent of extracurricular activities at Harvard. While students at Sciences Po spend more time in the classroom, Harvard kids are running clubs and founding organizations. “They don’t expect you to get involved in organizations as much,” Mason says of Sciences Po. But on U.S. soil, this Frenchman has decided to get involved in some extracurriculars...
Just last week, Princeton University launched a “Strategic Planning Initiative” to examine a host of issues related to technology use in the classroom...