Word: grades
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Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 was at the forefront of all of these controversies, reprimanding the administration for assuming a liberal position on the matters. Mansfield also alleged that a link exists between affirmative action and grade inflation...
...still believed in eighth grade civics when I came to Harvard. And then you had all the stuff with Vietnam. This message of exploitation, and the economic realities, and how so much boiled down to class," he said. "I learned how much hatred there was out there, how much discrimination...
...self-education, for reading literature or history or philosophy that hasn't been assigned, for listening to music that you won't be tested on, for strolling around art museums just to look at the pictures, for writing essays or stories or poems that no instructor will get to grade and, above all, for thinking and talking about what it all means. That can be fixed, though it won't be easy. The first step will be to recognize that there's problem.CrimsonGabriel EberDAVID R. LAYZER '46 is currently Menzel professor of astrophysics and teaches two popular Core classes, Science...
...understand that the kinder-garden through 12th grade environment is really critical," McNealy said. In the future, universities may also use the Internet more extensively for student registration and handing in papers, he added...
Once start-up costs were absorbed for remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy...