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...often respond simultaneously with the same word or sentence. We have put on the same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate notes. They studied separately for the exam. When it was returned, they had missed the same questions, for the same reasons...
Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, which administers the SAT, says the racial disparities are owing to differences in educational opportunity. He contends that "dropping the SAT makes no more sense than dropping classroom grades." Colleges, he says, need a "common yardstick in an era of grade inflation." Last year 40% of students who took the SAT reported having an A average in high school, up from 28% in 1990. And evaluating applicants without the SAT is an expensive proposition. Michael Cowan, chairman of the U.C. academic senate, which would have to approve Atkinson's proposal, estimates that changing...
...sees between grade inflation and African-American enrollment, historically. As Mansfield himself has said in the aftermath, he is pleased his comments received such a strong reaction. I am heartened to find controversial statements can get students riled up about what they hear from the Faculty out of the classroom. The more pressing question is whether similarly provocative, and perhaps untrue, statements can energize students in the classroom, discussing Confucian thought as well as affirmative action...
Teaching and research are also often mutually reinforcing. Professors who are deeply caught up in research transmit their enthusiasm for their subject to their students; new insights often arise out of discussions in the classroom. Indeed, professors often begin working on a new area by teaching in that area; many important books began as Harvard lectures...
...often respond simultaneously with the same word or sentence. We have put on the same T shirt on the same day in different cities. We have friends who are twins, both doctors, who have similar experiences. They took a pharmacy class together in medical school but sat across the classroom from each other and took separate notes. They studied separately for the exam. When it was returned, they had missed the same questions, for the same reasons...