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Voters may also recognize some unusual similarities between candidates and current council members because many council hopefuls are modeling themselves after one or more of the departing progressives...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...procedure for assigning students to residential houses emerged relatively unscathed last year. But the issue is far from settled. And Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 is vowing to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in each house--a radical change from the current "choice-based" system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Lottery's Future Still to be Decided | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Elmendorf said the year-long introductory economics course--officially called Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics"--will also deemphasize algebra during the macroeconomics half of the course. He said Ec 10, traditionally one of Harvard's most popular courses, will instead introduce more material on current economic issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...council brought the affirmative action effort more in line with the current administrative setup of FAS, and its revisions left student activists predicting more frustration in the future about the University's inability to diversify its faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slow Change on the Horizon for Minority Hiring | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...teaching profession gets generally low marks in Silber's book. He lambastes U.S. schools of education as an "unintentional conspiracy to defraud the American public because they are certifying the ineducable to be educators." To draw a better pool of prospective teachers, he suggests scrapping the current time-consuming four-year certification program in favor of rigorous qualification tests and one semester of pedagogy and practice teaching. In another controversial view, he believes that high school teachers should score an A on a freshman-level college exam in their subject before being allowed to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ivory Tower Triggerman | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

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