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...Last year, Harvard lost to Dartmouth one week after blowing out the Big Green, then lost a feisty game at Penn three weeks later after its exam break. But if the players turn those gut-wrenching losses into exhilarating victories in 2009, the script may be different this time...
...studied in quite the same way as other art forms,” Allison B. Kline ’09, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, says. “You wouldn’t want to see it become something that’s simply theoretical and exam-focused. Acting is really about production and experience.”Striking a balance between instructional and experiential learning has proven a challenge for both performance and the visual arts. Harvard College has always stayed away from pre-professional tracks, but young artists today will be graduating and trying...
...characters get drunk, fall in love and steal exam papers - but Five Point Someone also taps into the pressures facing students at India's élite educational institutions. One character's brilliant research proposal gets shelved because he's considered an underachiever, with a "five-point-something" grade average. Another nearly breaks down under the pressure from his mother to find a job that will pay for his father's medical bills and sister's dowry...
Parents, get ready to start stressing out even earlier about whether your kid will get into a good college. The College Board, the nonprofit that owns the PSAT and SAT, on Oct. 22 unveiled a new exam designed to assess eighth graders' readiness for high school and college courses. The two-hour test, known as ReadiStep, will launch next fall, using a multiple-choice format divided into sections that evaluate students' reading, writing and math skills...
...going after each other.” Clayton powered his way through 11 straight match wins in route to dual success on the weekend. “Senior year you want to win. Everything just worked perfectly,” Clayton said. He also managed to take a midterm exam between matches. “Managing to win both the singles final and the doubles final in the biggest tournament in the fall and take an exam on top of it? Now that’s a [heck] of a 24 hour period,” Rueb said. Compared...