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...champions sit in first place in February, the Ancient Eight title is theirs to lose. The 2007 Ivy champs dropped a road contest to Yale in late January before running the table in its remaining league slate a year ago. Lack of focus or rustiness after the three-week exam layoff, you might say, or maybe just underestimation of a Bulldogs team unexpected to contend in the league that season. At the time, it could have seemed as though Harvard’s two-win pre-Ivy record was rearing its ugly head—maybe this young Crimson team...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CUNNING COMMENTARY: Crimson Can't Be Jinxed in Title Run | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...said, most students want to be happier...and I make it very clear from the outset, the class is taught on two levels. The first level is like any other class in the department: students are exposed to rigorous research, they read and write academic papers, they have exams. [...] The second level is that I always ask—whether it is in class or in the response papers—I always ask how can we take these ideas and apply them to our lives. In other words, it is a very applied class where the students hopefully...

Author: By Jack G. Clayton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Tal D. Ben-Shahar | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...students are required to take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and pass both sections—English Language Arts and Mathematics—in order to graduate. The flaw in the MCAS system, according to Fowler-Finn, lies in the retest for students who initially fail the exam. Tenth-graders who score below the passing level of 220 points on the MCAS when it is first administered can retake the test twice a year until they graduate. A score of at least 240 points is required for a grade of proficient. The federal No Child Left Behind...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Committee Brings Up MCAS | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...educators who opened doors and altered the course of our lives. I was lucky enough to encounter two such teachers my senior year in a public high school in Connecticut. Dr. Cappel told us from the outset that his goal was not to prepare us for the AP biology exam; it was to teach us how to think like scientists, which he proceeded to do with a quiet passion, mainly in the laboratory. Mrs. Hastings, my stern, Radcliffe-trained English teacher, was as devoted to her subject as the gentle Doc Cappel was to his: a tough taskmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make Great Teachers | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Such an exam would be a content-based, minimum competency test, ensuring that students learn basic skills before exiting each grade. Such an exam adds the benefits of closer student-teacher relationships due to team preparation, and helps to pinpoint the areas in which a student or teacher is underperforming in comparison to their peers across the country...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: The Dems Can Save NCLB | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

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