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...interview in mid-April, Reeves said his credit card expenses all came from city-related business, calling the Chronicle’s reporting on the matter “open character assassination done without research, with no respect for fact at all and not for context...
...debate among faculty and students at both schools in the early 1900s gained new relevance last December, in the context of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ decision to create a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. SEAS, while still a part of the Faculty, is now independent enough to form stronger relationships with other Harvard faculties, according to former FAS Dean William C. Kirby...
...interviews, Mendelsohn’s students raved about his ability to connect scientific developments to their historical and social context, and they praised the way in which he got undergraduates to interact with course material...
...shorter amount of time—the twenty or so years of life that led up to his study at Antioch College, where he joint concentrated in biology and history—for Mendelsohn to realize that scientific advances could not be studied apart from their historical context...
...students some very basic conceptual questions and discovered that they were unable to answer them. By comparing my students’ performance on various types of problems, I came to the agonizing conclusion that many students were simply making it through the course by rote memorization. Beyond the familiar context, they were unable to apply even the most basic principles. Suddenly the illusion of being a good teacher was shattered...