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...every student had access to what was called a “low priority” computer account with 10 kilobytes of storage—about five typed pages. These storage accounts were created so students could do the programming work required to fulfill their quantitative reasoning core requirement, QR-A, where students learned basic programming...
Computer science was not formally in the Core curriculum, but according to Konstan, the inclusion of basic programming into the quantitative reasoning courses was a way of saying that Harvard believed every student needed these skills—but without having to create a whole batch of new core courses...
...general sense, we support the core of President Obama’s education initiatives: heavy on spending and tough on teachers. Specifically, we were pleased with his allocation of $4.35 billion to the “Race to the Top” initiative that gives states an immediate monetary incentive to monetary incentive to reform dilapidated public schools. As part of the broader American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Race to the Top—a small fraction of the total $96.8 billion allocated to the Department of Education under the stimulus package—is a wise investment...
Faced with the largest financial crisis in recent history, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has enhanced the rhetoric of shared priorities across the traditionally decentralized school. FAS’ path to recovery, Smith says, will require staunch commitment to a “core mission...
...Faculty must apply our resources, both financial capital and human capital, to the pursuit of our core mission first and foremost,” Smith wrote in a letter to the Faculty in February...