Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broader level, the report says the decentralized decision-making process of FAS prevents any coherent discussion of educational policy...
...report's most pressing curricular concern is the failure of the QRR and the absence of mathematical instruction in the Core Curriculum. "The current quantitative reasoning test offers no guarantee that the students have a meaningful level of manipulative skills, much less an understanding of quantitative and logical reasoning and the essence of mathematics as a discipline," the report reads...
Lecturer in Economics Jeffery Wolcowitz says he agrees with the conclusions of the report as they relate to the QRR. "It is true that the present QRR requirements are not at a very high level," he says. "There has been some discussion to upgrade the program," says Wolcowitz, who is a member of the subcommittee of the Core...
...current QRR obviously doesn't send out signals to the world that we expect a high level of quantitative skills," says Paul C. Martin, Vleck professor of pure and applied physics and FAS associate dean for the division of applied sciences. The question that Harvard faces now, according to Martin, is to what extent the requirement should be changed...
School Daze is a failure, but Lee fails in the way that only a gifted filmmaker car. The movie isn't conceived on a simplistic or amateurish level. Rather, it is simply too ambitious and sprawling, too complicated and confused. Lee has a remarkable visual sense and a truly original way of constructing a story. In She's Gotta Have It, these talents came together to create an innovative, exciting new type of comedy. I doubt, however, that any moviemaker could construct a coherent whole out of the slew of elements Lee attempts to treat in School Daze...