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...Teaching and Torment Michelle Rhee is to be commended for her dedication to students, slashing of school bureaucracy and belief in public education [Dec. 8]. But as a second-grade teacher, I am concerned about her obvious disdain for creativity in the classroom, warm learning environments and such important tools as classroom meetings. I am reminded of a quote by Aristotle: "Education of the mind without education of the heart is indeed no education at all." Perhaps the challenge in Washington is to find a superintendent who believes in both. Amy Trusso, Solana Beach, Calif...
...second semester, Campbell enrolled as a student at Queen Mary, University of London. Again, she took four very different courses, with varying degrees of focus on sociology. Despite one class change that had to be reapproved and an extended period of time before she received her grade for another class, Campbell eventually received four full credits from her year abroad. This was the same amount she would have received had she taken four courses for two terms back at Harvard. As for the thesis: “after the experiences I had abroad, this wasn’t something...
...ubiquitous presence soon becomes grating. And without the driving shock factor, milder songs never come together. “Out From Under,” a slow-dance track with sappy lyrics about dreams, ends up sounding like something you’d hear at an 8th grade party. In the sniveling “My Baby,” Britney thanks her children for helping her through hard times, but her repeated cooing is more irksome than comforting. If you were worried that Britney couldn’t revive her pop career, never fear. “Circus?...
...Schwartz said that some action can be taken only with the administration’s support. He noted that he had spoken to administrators about Flores’ proposal to grade students’ first semesters on campus on a pass/no record basis, and that they said the idea is “infeasible...
...platforms of Undergraduate Council presidential candidates promise academic change. They promise to alter the way freshman courses are graded and to extend the deadline to add or drop courses. Two of the insider tickets have platform points that would mean major changes in the Registrar’s office. The platform of Andrea R. Flores ’10 suggests changing freshman grading to “pass/no record”, similar to the system at MIT. Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 advocates in his presidential platform extending the add/drop deadline from five weeks to eight weeks. Both...