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...working toward a citation in legal studies, says that “of course there are obvious differences [between a course in Second Life and real life], which can detract from or add to the experience. Some people don’t have the confidence to interact in a classroom, especially with one of the world’s greatest law professors, but can do so in Second Life...
...result, some students said they entered the lottery without ever having sat in on a class. Yao Yu ’07 said she signed up for the course without shopping it because she was not able to physically get into the classroom...
...interpretation of course review data, the restrictive nature of the standard Harvard schedule and course model, and the tendency of faculty to let research distract them from teaching. The bulk of the committee’s recommendations focused on improving the resources available to faculty to improve their classroom instruction.This is all a fair start. A sustained effort to improve the pedagogical resources available to Harvard’s instructors will do no harm. But the curricular review continues to ignore the most fundamental reason why teaching at Harvard falls short: the University does not do enough to hire...
...secret that a vigorous social life can cut into a student’s academic performance. Scholars who spend their nights raucously reveling with members of the opposite sex (or, for that matter, the same sex) will not perform as well in the classroom the next morning. Instead they will find themselves (at 11 a.m. the following day) busy navigating the politics of evicting a semi-drunk stranger from their bed. Escaping from this brand of moral depravity has been historically challenging. Upon our return to school, however, a different perspective shed new light on an old problem: what...
...with many autistic children, the skills Luke was acquiring in the classroom were not very portable. (Learning how to use the toilet at school, for example, didn't translate into his knowing how to use one anywhere else.) Alarmed by his regression at home, the Perkinses in late 2003 enrolled Luke in a Boston boarding school renowned for its success with autistic children. And because federal law requires school districts to provide an extended school day and even residential services if a special-education student needs them, his parents informed Colorado's Thompson school district it had to pick...