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Thanks are owed to Harvard College, and particularly to its Core Curriculum, which, in case you were confused, is the “general education?? complement to our departmental “concentrations.” In Harvard’s words, the Core is “an attempt to say what it means to be broadly educated...
...once too cynical to think an undergraduate education would change me at all. I was wrong, for a transformation has taken place. My education??including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements—has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...
...Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Committee on Graduate Education??s (CGE) legislation to mandate evaluations of all Teaching Fellows (TFs) passed without a whisper of holding the Faculty to the same standard. While the Faculty’s desire to focus the meeting on curricular reform is understandable, it is utterly dismaying that a quick, easy consensus could not be reached on asking professors to be held accountable in the same way TFs will...
...role models found in single sex schools. Indeed, some recent research has showed improvement not only in academic subjects like math but also in attendance and behavior. Given that poor children of Hispanic and African-American minorities are most at-risk for dropping out, according to U.S. Department of Education??s 2002 report, this is a strong argument for single sex schools...
Susan Eaton, the research director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice—which sponsored the panel—said that a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would represent “the hammer over the final nail in Brown v. Board of Education??s coffin...