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...times a year. But four years and $12 million dollars later, ETS appears to have decided that its test revision was not tenable. “It would have been very nice to have launched the revised test with the various improvements that the graduate community helped us design, but the issue of access and having enough seats and centers for all students kept us from launching the new test,” ETS spokesman Tom Ewing said. ETS undertook the effort to revamp the GRE in the wake of security concerns. Some test questions began showing...
...With teaching it’s hard to have continuous time to concentrate,” Shreffler said. “You like to have periods when you can focus on teaching and periods when you can focus on research.” Crawford, a professor of urban design and planning theory at the Graduate School of Design, also cited the importance of time off from the classroom. “My school only gives one semester off every six years, and this will buy me an extra semester,” said Crawford, who plans to use the time...
Last fall, we took a junior tutorial in Social Studies that proved to be one of the defining courses of our college careers. The class, “Practicing Democracy: Leadership, Community and Power,” required each of us to design a substantial community organizing project over the course of the semester. Thanks to the course’s meticulous planning, many of us novice organizers found ourselves privy to areas that would have been inaccessible through Harvard’s extracurricular programs...
...teamed Boston residents with architects to design a new $85.5 million community center, another organized a get-out-the-vote campaign in Roxbury, and one worked to mobilize the myriad Middle East activism groups on campus into a coherent network. No longer were our two worlds split into disparate (and competing) realms of learning; this pedagogy married more theoretical, conventional classroom learning with tangible—and holistically rewarding—activities, resulting in an incredibly refreshing and educational experience...
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, the print version of the April 5 news article "Gehry Will Not Design Allston Buildings" carried an incorrect headline. In fact, Gehry said he had not immediate plans to design an Allston building, but that he would consider doing so if the opportunity presented itself...