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...seven classes approved so far hail from the Foreign Cultures category. “Some people just assume Societies of the World is just another name for Foreign Cultures, and that’s not our approach at all,” Harris said. While courses in Foreign Cultures focus on a single region, the Societies of the World category will include a number of courses that span borders, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Stephanie H. Kenen. Course development in the Societies of the World category has been slow: of the seven classes approved so far, only...
...greeted her audience as a class—yet the seats were filled not with students but with parents visiting for Freshman Parents’ Weekend. In her welcome remarks on Friday, Hammonds paralleled her first year as dean with the novel experiences of being a freshman. A primary focus of her address was increasing faculty-student involvement. “Working with an esteemed scholar is the type of learning we ought to be facilitating,” Hammonds said. Within this goal, she also discussed the range of research opportunities and jobs at Harvard that facilitate this kind...
...soldiers can depart the country while maintaining the current level of security. Although security has improved dramatically in many neighborhoods in Baghdad over the past year, the ability of the Iraqi security forces to act independently and effectively, while improved, remains inconsistent. Iraqi forces have yet to shift their focus from counterinsurgency operations to defending Iraq's borders. The Iraqi air force, for example, announced this week that it has ordered French- and American-made fighters, but its planned 32 squadrons won't be fully up and flying until 2015. The former insurgents who joined the "Awakening" movement or neighborhood...
...Barack Obama begins to assess his potential picks for his cabinet, Secretary of Education is not one of the positions you would necessarily expect him to focus on first. But American parents especially may wish to study up on the possible candidates. After all, if Obama's campaign proposals are to be fulfilled, Margaret Spellings' successor could oversee a dramatic $18 billion overhaul of the nation's public education system over the next few years...
...Child Left Behind act, considered to be one of the first priorities in Congress come January. Down the road, he or she can also plan to direct the founding of hundreds of new charter schools and the spread of universal pre-K nationwide, as well as a continued focus on increased accountability and a better trained teacher corps...