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...curriculum I propose, in contrast to the virtually content-less core curricula at most of our leading universities, including Harvard’s new one and old one, involves 16 semester courses. Only three of the 16 courses—one dealing with American literature, one dealing with English literature, and one dealing with political philosophy—revolve around the reading of classic works...
...Such a core, through its structure and content, cultivates, among other things, the virtues of accurate reading and informed argument. These virtues transcend partisan differences and will serve students well not only inside and out of the classroom but in life beyond the campus...
...national consumer rights organization, and Harvard College Free Culture, a student group focused on technology and intellectual freedom. Both Oxman and Seltzer, a visiting fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, countered Green by arguing that consumers should be able to distribute and reproduce legally acquired media content without fear of prosecution. “We want to preserve the incentives that copyright law sets up, but it shouldn’t be by blocking reproduction at every place that it might happen,” Seltzer said. “Regulation can’t tell...
...female tendencies towards verbal skills and communication.And the research is carrying over into the classroom. Single-sex classrooms, once proposed with the aim of improving females’ scores in math, have now been lauded as also improving boys’ engagement with books by allowing teachers to modify content for gender. All sorts of suggestions have been put forth for why girls read more than boys, from the content of the books taught in school to males’ stronger engagement with other media, particularly video and computer games. It’s a fine line to walk between...
...financial issues put the fate of the magazine in question. This was only one of the several reasons Sebastian listed while explaining the magazine’s upcoming move to an exclusively online format."There were three main reasons we moved totally online. First, we can have expanded content, with things like user-generated reviews, online fashion shows using slide-show format, etc.—all sorts of fun things. The second reason is the frequency that we can put out an issue. We used to put out one issue every semester, which, for a writer, can be very...