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...bill now moves to the Senate, where there is already talk of compromise. A group of nine moderate Republicans, led by Missouri's John Danforth, have put together their own version in an attempt to bridge the gulf separating Bush and the Democrats. "There is still time to reach a compromise that will bring us together," said Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy. But the White House has so far shown little interest in negotiating...
...farewell gesture to outgoing President Derek C. Bok, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) renamed the Danforth Center of Teaching and Learning the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Tuesday's meeting of the full body...
James D. Wilkinson, director of the Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, says he is pushing forward a number of projects aimed at improving teaching quality that he hopes will come together before Bok's departure...
Finally, Harvard is notorious for its teachers' aversion to teaching, not to mention their aversion to students. Under Bok, a strong supporter of Danforth Center research into teaching methods, the Medical School instituted New Pathways, a highly successful program emphasizing student-teacher interaction in small groups. Similar progress is badly needed throughout the University...
Because professors are held in higher esteem than graduate students, students would respond more favorably to attention from a professor. Danforth Center studies have concluded that the quality of learning is proportionate to the amount of attention students receive...