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...time Harvard administrators worried that a hasty, large-scale initiative could take professors away from crucial time in the classroom...
...common defense of Harvard’s recruiting policy is that our athletes (unlike athletes at other schools, like Stanford) are well-rounded individuals who will contribute to the classroom as well as just on the playing field. But this argument is severely lacking...
...brag about, but the financial sacrifices are bigger than many suspect. According to a study provided to TIME by the research firm Quality Education Data, a division of Scholastic, U.S. elementary school teachers spend more than $1 billion a year of their own money on supplies for their classrooms. The average teacher's personal contribution is a surprising $521 annually, 35% more than what the school provides them with to buy such things as paperbacks, software, instructional posters and art supplies. Teachers, with an average salary of $42,000, say what they need most is materials for at-risk students...
Bashing Israel has been a popular campus activity since the rise of student radicalism in the late 1960s, but during the past year some Harvard students have noted an increase of anti-Israel bias inside the classroom. Professors perpetuate the Zionist-racist calumny that corrupted the United Nations for fifteen years. A professor helps to prosecute the Arab war against Israel by holding Israel responsible for the aggression against it. Teaching assistants routinely manifest their bias instead of presenting a critically balanced analysis. These are only some of the anguished laments I have been hearing from Jewish and other students...
...citizens of the free world, let alone members of the University community, students ought to do everything possible to challenge systematic prejudice and bias. But what can they do? Let me suggest some ways they may begin correcting distortion within the classroom and also beyond...