Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As we celebrate endings and commemorate beginnings, it is important that we take a moment to reflect on a significant change at the College over the past year: randomization. The class of 1999 has just completed the first year of the randomized housing experiment, and we would like to point...
In an attempt to fight the polarization that had supposedly taken over the College and to increase the diversity within the campus, the administration decided that upper-class housing would no longer be a matter of (even mitigated) choice. However, with the distance a year provides and with the results...
After a successful six-month experiment, the Faculty announces plans for the rapid expansion of the General Education Program--the precursor to the Core Curriculum--including the addition of eight new courses.
But feelings might be different if schools were different. Often the demands on educators to cover more content, to give more drills on skills and to prime students for tests create conditions that are less than ideal for learning. Four more weeks would give educators the time they need to...
From the opening press conference, I realized that for IBM, this was much more than a scientific experiment. Competition had overshadowed science. It had become a contest about winning and losing. The IBM team was at once a player, organizer, arbitrator and sponsor of the event, which left me at...