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Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt...
...groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt.” “We don’t have a compact that we voted on,” Burgard said, adding that the Faculty knows the report “from The New York Times last week” and “from...
...coxswain for Radcliffe Crew, one of the oldest women’s rowing programs in the country, I was proud of our history and appreciative of the work of the women who came before me; this year, women’s rowing celebrates its eleventh year as an official NCAA sport. And nationally, more women than ever before participate in sports at all levels and ages. Yet somehow, it’s still okay to laugh at the idea that women can be serious athletes...
...located on the grounds of the 12-acre Henry Ford Museum and its 100-acre companion site, the Greenfield Village. The museum and village's exhibits of antique vehicles, restored historic homesteads and artifacts bring academic concepts to life and serve as the bases for class projects. When eleventh graders study early-American economic systems, the village becomes their classroom for nine weeks. Exhibit curators often lead class discussions at the sawmills, weaving stations and tin-making shops inside the craftworks district, and on the lawns of Thomas Edison's laboratory, the working soybean farm and antebellum tobacco plantation that...
...heaviest dose of instruction with real-world relevance is the Academy's innovative senior mastery process. The two-year seminar beginning in eleventh grade is both a tutorial on searching for a job and an exercise in self-exploration. Each student fills fat white binders with biographies, personal mission statements, lists of life and career goals, and assorted essays in which they articulate and assess their own strengths, interests and ambitions. A boy who wants to be a mechanical engineer composed an essay titled "How To Be A Better Me," outlining the steps he intends to take to "become successful...