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...Harvard students may be talented. But all students should be able to access a fine arts education??not just those who are naturally gifted...
...years, the Harvard College Course Catalogue had maintained a Pink Floyd philosophy: “We don’t need no education.” But this fall, two professors have unrolled undergraduate courses on American education??and their classrooms are filling up. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) debuted Government 1368, “The Politics of American Education,” and History 1637, “The History of American Education, 1636-2000.” Shattuck Professor of Government Paul E. Peterson, who teaches Gov 1368, said he developed the course because...
Last week, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings unveiled the U.S. Department of Education??s latest attempt to swat down the hydra-headed problems facing higher education in the United States. While the report by the Commission on the Future Higher Education illuminates many real concerns, it unfortunately chooses to prescribe as a solution a dubious system of bureaucratic oversight for the nation’s higher education system which would ill-serve the interests of our nation’s students...
...those that track our gross domestic product. Unfortunately, the report proposes an extensive “consumer-friendly information database” that will allow people to “weigh and rank comparative institutional performance.” Not only is this proposal cynical about the purpose of education??reducing, as it does, students to “consumers” and academics to “institutional performance”—but it additionally places colleges in the uncomfortable position of having to justify themselves against some fictional standard of output...
Instead of reacting to the perception that higher education has let us down by forcing colleges into justifying their value through statistics, the Department of Education ought to address root problems of higher education??many of which stem all the way back to early childhood learning—in order to ensure the United States’s continued academic success. In fact, other parts of the department’s report chart out commendable efforts in the pursuit of educational accessibility and availability. It’s unfortunate that these come nestled in amongst the commission?...