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...Collin W. Blackburn ’03 , an economics concentrator in Adams House, is a student who has never been able to pay attention in class. Rather than sleeping or talking to the girl behind him, Collin found it stimulating to draw in the margins of his classwork pictures of his English teacher, who looked like a duck. Since the production of these anthropomorphic caricatures, the fledgling artist has aspired to work as an editorial cartoonist, so as to focus his attention toward good use. While little of Collin’s work will depict the Faculty and staff...
...floodlights shut off for the season, Morris changes his focus to non-football activities. Or, at least to non-tackle football activities. In the spring, he helps coach a flag football team of third and fourth graders. He loves the off-season and the chance to catch up on classwork, relax with friends, and give back to the community. Most weekends, he likes hanging out with friends in his room and giving his body a rest...
...like Matt's have caught the eye of school administrators, leading to a nationwide movement toward career academies. For many kids, especially those who feel disconnected from traditional coursework and don't excel at things like sports or drama club, these "schools within schools" provide an exciting connection between classwork and a fulfilling career. They also manage, through the breadth of their recruiting and their subject offerings, to avoid much of the stigma once associated with shop and vocational classes...
Time was, Harvard sought to teach virtue as well as knowledge. During the great World Wars that marked this century, students were urged by the administration to go and fight--in 1919, classwork went ignored as Harvard students were called to the front lines and served their community valiantly as scabs in the Boston police strike. Yet the Harvard of 2001 would never call for participation on the part of students in the life of the community if such participation would interfere with academic commitments. Students today spend much of their time encased in what has been called the "Harvard...
...several years now educators have been puzzling over a nettlesome new math problem: with high-stakes exams requiring students to learn more, how should teachers go about cramming in the extra classwork? Popular answers have been to poach time from pursuits like art, PE and music or to excise field trips. According to a University of Virginia study published last year, some schools in that state even took to curtailing student bathroom trips to squeeze in extra study time...