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...subject.” Students were notified of the decision in an e-mail by Kramer on Thursday. “No grading system is perfect, but the consensus is that the reform will have significant pedagogical benefits, including that it encourages greater flexibility and innovation in the classroom and in designing metrics for evaluating student work,” Kramer said in the e-mail. The faculty has not determined when the transition will be made, but the “latest would be a year,” Kramer said. In response to Stanford’s decision...
...team goals and the hard work my teammates were putting in made me work harder in the pool.”Beyond his athletic prowess, Rathgeber also made his presence felt outside of the pool. His First-Team Academic All-American selection speaks to his successes in the classroom, but Rathgeber also excelled as a captain and gained the respect and admiration of his teammates.“I’ve had more vocal captains at different points in time, but it’s easy to say that when Geoff speaks the guys listen,” Murphy...
...third possibility is that Harvard economics faculty and teaching fellows are particularly brilliant classroom teachers who outshine even their Harvard colleagues in other departments. Nice thought, but it doesn’t explain the popularity of economics over time or at other universities...
...advise your thesis, the funding that didn’t come through, the fellowship or job that you weren’t offered. Here, we have learned to experience failure, because it is impossible to succeed at everything at once. Whether those failures were in the classroom, in tryouts, or even in a fight with a friend, we would be remiss if we said that we had made it through the Harvard experience without learning that we cannot always succeed...
...bevy of choices that have to be made and risks that have to be taken. He still sits at the head of the class because he’s teacher’s pet, but he’s beginning to wonder what will happen when teacher leaves the classroom...