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This past Monday, while speaking to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Carter relates the importance of “the three E’s: emancipation, education, and earnestness.”
Her mother, Denise M. Bell-Carter, affirms her daughter’s desire to use her book as a platform to promote education.
“She’s not really about that. For her, it’s just about getting the story out there and making sure that people understand the importance of getting an education.”
Lawrence Buell, who served as the Dean of Undergraduate Education from 1992 to 1996, wrote in an e-mail that grade inflation has long been a topic of discussion at Harvard, but “there simply wasn’t enough faculty consensus around whether the drift toward higher...
“The best education for students is not to teach them individual tidbits to remember. I want to be changing the tidbits every six months,” says Macklis. “If we taught them all the tidbits now, they’d be wrong in...