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...three beginnings.”Transitions and overlaps—what Bol calls “points of mutual reference”—are worked out in meetings about course direction and lecture content.“We didn’t just schlep into the classroom and give lectures,” Hartl says of his 1b team. “We knew exactly what was happening when.”For faculty teaching courses that are many years in the running, debriefing in the early years helped streamline the course content.“Even...
...that Cambridge should be taking other “bold steps” that have proven successful in addressing under-performance in cities across the country. Among them is increased tutoring for failing students, the hiring of more math and literacy coaches, and more teacher mentoring programs within the classroom...
...first way to accomplish these steps, Nolan says, is to return the fiscal surplus to the schools and make sure more money reaches the classroom by reducing “the extraordinarily high” central administration expenses...
...have fewer female professors than Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. But the Kennedy School, with zero, does, and for most of the last term, student and women’s groups have called on the school to recruit, actively, women and minority faculty and students, and to scrap classroom policies they considered discriminatory. One women’s group even charged that the school’s lackadaisical search for women and minority faculty candidates has violated federal affirmative action hiring codes, a complaint still pending with the Department of Labor. Last week, the school finally began...
...spring of 2003, University President Lawrence H. Summers was quoted as using the phrase “camp Harvard” to suggest an overemphasis on extracurricular activities at the college, sparking a flurry of debate over the merits of learning “outside the classroom.” Although Summers quickly issued a correction, claiming he was “not aware of having used that phrase [but] I did once use the phrase ‘camp counselor’ to refer to some of the functions of House tutors,” the point remained.This statement...