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Vanserg: 1. Classroom building home to most Japanese, Chinese, and Korean classes. 2. Farther than the Quad...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvardisms: Learning The Lingo | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

Leading off, you have that pesky Expository Writing requirement. It’s true that some of you will emerge from the one- or two-semester program (depending on your writing level) with improved writing skills, but others simply leave the classroom confused and disappointed...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best And Worst Courses For First-Years | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...School isn't my wheelhouse of strengths. I was an 8th-grade dropout, though I finished with correspondence classes. When I walk through the classrooms at my school, I try to figure out what the classroom's grade is. I listen to the questions and try to answer them. When I get to a point where I can't answer the questions, I'm somewhere around the fourth grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Andre Agassi | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...have to remember that college admissions is a zero-sum game. For every kid who's admitted, there's another kid who doesn't get the space. There's a cost there. It hurts the quality of intellectual discussion in the classroom, the vitality of the university. These universities are nonprofits whose mission should be to identify the best and brightest students. Their mission shouldn't be to perpetuate aristocracy in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How VIPs Get In | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

...classes enhanced learning, and that the beneficial skills students acquired in small classes continued to be seen even after they returned to large classes. The results of this experiment “reportedly helped spur President Bill Clinton’s request for 100,000 new teachers to reduce classroom sizes,” according to The Washington Post.Mosteller also worked with Professor David L. Wallace of the University of Chicago to determine who had written 12 of the 57 Federalist Papers by calculating sentence length and the frequency of certain words. They eventually concluded that James Madison had written...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Statistics Dep’t Founder Dead at 89 | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

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