Word: jacobe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...analyze Chicago’s test scores, Levitt looked for trends typical of a cheating teacher and developed an algorithm to identify them. Levitt—working with Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian A. Jacob ’92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired...
Head teaching fellow Jacob M. Kline announced the new policy in an e-mail sent on Tuesday to students in Government 97b, the second semester of a required year-long tutorial for sophomore government concentrators...
...surprise at the least. Witness Protection Program (WPP), an eight-man band of ’03 and ’04 graduates, used their unique angle as a sucker punch to “work against the institutional forces of the university,” according to vocalist Jacob Rubin. Performing hip-hop with live instruments, WPP members included MC Jacob Rubin ’03, MC Benny Peterson, drummer Peter Kennedy ’03, keyboardist Nicholas Britell ’04, bass David Sherman, Alan J. Wilkis ’04, DJ Cameron Kirby...
...were fortunate enough that the day when we were meeting to talk about [a replacement for] Zackie Achmat, [Perry’s] people called us,” said Jacob H. Bor ’05, another committee member of the summit. “They said he was interested in getting involved...
...favor a constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...