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...mean SAT scores as a measure of intellectual prowess—mean-ingless SAT scores would be more like it—varsity athletes make superb role models for the Harvard student body. Their ability to balance countless time-consuming and physically exhausting practices with the same amount of classwork that everyone else has is stunning. Look around the dining hall and you will see athletes relaxing together; go out on the weekend and you will see athletes partying after a long hard week. In short, Harvard’s athletes have perspective...
...surprisingly, one of the most common impressions of Harvard’s social life is that an inordinate amount of time is devoted to classwork. “People seem to study a lot here,” Momsen says. “I was surprised to see people studying in the dining halls—that’s not what students do, at least not at the German university I go to.” And students like Barragan who say the workload at their home university is greater note that Harvard students spend an extraordinary amount...
...hope, of course, is that Chancellor Beacon's efforts will translate into academic gains for Shaliah, a bubbly Bs-and-Cs student, as well as for the Shoemaker pupils performing below grade level, whom Chancellor Beacon plans to target aggressively with personalized assignments and weekly monitoring of classwork and homework. The Denmarks like this cautious approach but also have some immediate concerns. Mom Tanya wants new textbooks; the ones Shaliah has are torn and marked up, and she's stillwaiting for a science book. Denmark would also like to see the discipline code strictly enforced in the sprawling, sometimes rowdy...
...Phillips Brooks House Association program, production manager for the Demon, president and founder of Harvard Lovers of the Garden State, term-time dorm crew worker, facebook designer and intramural representative for Pforzheimer House, and Institute of Politics and Harvard Model Congress member—says he routinely skips classwork and sleep to work on his extracurricular activities...
...ENHANCED LEARNING Researchers at the University of Illinois have determined that the involvement of a father or father figure can help improve a child's grades. When dads ask kids daily about their classwork and school relationships, reading and math scores on achievement tests are higher...