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...Task Force on Teaching and Career Development acknowledges what students have been saying for years: Harvard has a pedagogy problem. The 86-page report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation of pedagogical reforms proposed by the Task Force rather than leaving the report to collect dust next to similar reports that have preceded it.The...
...important to be humble when we talk about education, because TV was going to change education and videotape was going to change it and computer-aided instruction was going to change it. But until the Internet exploded 10 years ago, technology really hadn't made a dent in education at all. Learning is mostly about creating a context for motivation. It's about why should you learn things. Technology plays a role, but it's not a panacea...
...That put a dent in our season,” Mitchell said. “He’s on the mend, and he doesn’t need surgery, but he’s still hobbling around right now and is most likely done for the rest of the season...
...head of a high-powered U.S. economic delegation that includes six cabinet ministers, the U.S. Trade Representative and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - and he's under pressure to deliver. The U.S. urgently needs Beijing to allow its currency to appreciate in value against the dollar, to put a dent in Washington's $200 billion-plus annual trade deficit with China. And Beijing is not inclined to comply...
...internal problems," said deputy William Querales, who is on the National Assembly's foreign policy committee. "President Chavez has confronted the problem of poverty and the serious social problems in our country." The opposition counters by pointing to studies showing that Chavez has failed to put a major dent in poverty and that crime has actually increased. But many in the dilapidated barrios on the outskirts of Caracas say they are better off since Chavez was elected in 1998. And since the majority of Venezuelan voters are from the lowest income brackets, that perception is what will count most...