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About 120 observers, mostly Ed School students, attended nine workshops on topics ranging from ways to include the arms race in high-school curricula to strategies for influencing Harvard to divest itself of stock in companies that manufacture nuclear weapons...
...with My Harvard, My Yale, the newest of a recent spate of compilations of Harvard memoirs. Last spring saw the publication of Our Harvard, in which prominent alumni reflected on their Cambridge years. The Harvard Book (a new edition of an old high-school prize chestnut), and Sons of Harvard, which considered the undergraduate experience of gay alumni. This one's contribution to the literature is its inclusion of equal time from the competition: half the book (the second half, be assured) is given over to essays by ex-New Haven residents...
...last starting to realize that such solutions are essentially superficial. These days, the problems in high school run so deep that no external meddling will mend them. Admission-related measures have no effect on schools whose primary purpose is not to prepare students for college. Yet they're in the worst trouble of all, struggling fiercely just to comply with basic competency requirements. A Mississippi editor wrote in late July that out-of-state recruiters, shifting through the state's high-school graduates for possible jobs, couldn't find enough trainable people to meet their needs...
...painstaking program of "expected learning outcomes" developed by schools and colleges through the College Board, and a self-styled "educational manifesto" by the Paideta Group, master-minded by philosopher and Encyclopedia Britannica scholar Mortimer Adler. Neither, though, is likely to get at the roots of the decline of high-school preparation--college or otherwise...
More down-to-earth have been the efforts of Project Equality's organizers, who hope to get not only college but also high-school representatives to agree on detailed competencies and "learning outcomes" for which to strive. If all educators can agree on what students should know, organizers reason, maybe they can at least start swimming against the downward drift...