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...proved them possible. Teach for America (TFA) began as the thesis of a Princeton senior. The brainchild of a 22-year-old intent on fixing America’s educational inequity provides low-income schools with highly educated young people who are three times more effective at teaching core subjects than those who would otherwise be in their stead...
...rally around each other. It’s really going to help us next season.”Though the Crimson is losing three graduating seniors—opposite hitter Jamie Crooks, libero Brian Rapp, and outside hitter Jordan Weitzen—much of the Crimson’s core will be back again next year.Junior Brady Weissbourd slammed down an average of 3.78 kills per game and had a season hitting percentage of .439, while sophomore Erik Kuld paced the Crimson offense with 4.05 kills per game, the 19th-highest mark in the country. Weintraub...
...year older, wiser, and more experienced—is poised to contend for a league title. “Improving from [2006] was not difficult,” Rhodes said. “We’ve had this entire offseason and spring to train this core group, and you could see a big improvement that I’ve never seen in my time here.”“In this league, you make runs every once in a while when you have a good team returning and they know what it takes,” Leone...
...Core Curriculum’s five-year review approaches, it may seem that the Faculty, the University community in general, and a good portion of the national press have already said all there is to say about Harvard’s grand educational experiment. This satiation must not dissuade the Faculty, however, from reevaluating the infamous set of undergraduate requirements with an open mind. While the Faculty is clearly unlikely to completely dismantle a program so painstakingly and expensively built up, the group should take this opportunity to make some much-needed adjustments. We have long maintained that...
...because economics has fewer requirements than many concentrations (10 courses, and 12 for honors). But in recent years, the department has made the concentration tougher, requiring calculus and econometrics on top of statistics, and the number of concentrators has gone up, not down. The grading curves in core economics courses are also among the toughest on campus. Herding, moreover, fails to explain the fact that economics is a leading major at virtually all liberal arts institutions. Something more fundamental must be at work...