Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WELL, aside from the year-long debacle called Ec 10, it didn't get any worse. My roomies turned out to be good friends, and I've lived with three of the original four for all four years here. There were some good classes, I found an enjoyable extra--curricular activity, and made a few friends...
Although there is no dearth of dance programs in Harvard's extra-curricular life, many students do not feel fairly treated in the programs which do exist, while others complain of the poor conditions under which they work. "For a university like Harvard, with the resources it has," said Anna Eberhardt '92, a student enrolled in the Radcliffe Dance Program, "not to have adequate space and a good floor is pitiful...
...Crimson also pointed to "statistically significant" differences in academic, extra-curricular, personal, teacher, counselor and alumni ratings, as well as class rank and scores. But our Quantitative Reasoning courses have shown people that differences can be "statistically significant" yet not large enough to be meaningful. The actual differences in the ratings turn out to be approximately 0.2 points or less on five or six point scales. For example, the extracurricular rating for alumni children was 2.52, compared to 2.43 for the others (one is high on those scales). Not only are such differences insignificant but the fact is that...
Despite the curricular reforms, critics have charged that Bok's commitment to ethics is more rhetorical than substantial...
...real tragedy of this obsessive preoccupation with Eurocentrism is that it is a trap and a diversion. Of all the reasons for the difficulties encountered by the minority kids in and out of school, curricular Eurocentrism ranks, if at all, at the bottom. That New York State, in the midst of an education crisis, should be devoting its attention to cleansing the grade school curriculum of Eurocentrism is a waste, a willful turning away from real problems...