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...enthusiastic about school than nonimmigrants. Part of the reason, says Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis for the o.e.c.d.'s Directorate for Education, is that many countries put their immigrant students through the same system as everyone else. "Equality has to do with equality of outcomes, not with equality of input," he says. "Nordic countries are highly sensitive to this. Their question is not, How do we do the same thing for all students? but, How do we do the right thing that enables all students to reach their potential...
...worrying those voting against the resolution would be misrepresented in the press. “I’m concerned that a vote on this somehow insinuates that if you don’t support what’s before us now, you don’t support community input,” Decker said. But Simmons defended her objections to Reeves. “It’s not the mayor’s committee. It’s not the city manager’s committee. It’s the city council’s committee that...
...images of the scanned material. Verba said that his goal is to digitize as many of Harvard’s books as possible—eventually all those out of copyright—rather than doing so selectively. In contrast, Trainer said that Princeton would solicit faculty and student input on picking the fraction of its library collection to be digitized. Harvard’s libraries, which compose the largest university system in the world, hold more than 15 million volumes, dwarfing the more than 6 million volumes in the Princeton system. Verba estimates that the out-of-copyright books...
Advisory group chair Matthew J. Murray said he hoped that “an ongoing institutional mechanism” would be created to give students “input to the president on matters of concern for the University...
...establish a means of allowing students to alert professors of poor TF performance. It passed with unanimous consent. Students will be able to contact the TF hotline by sending e-mails to tf@hcs.harvard.edu. Anonymity is guaranteed; a student board bound by a confidentiality agreement is charged with collecting input for presentation to the course professor. “[The TF hotline] is one of our central messages that resonated with students,” said Petersen after the meeting. “Every door we hit, we talked about this, and every time we talked about it, students responded with...