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...line separating Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) from the rest of the liberal arts-oriented Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) has always been blurry and ill-defined. DEAS, which administers Harvard’s computer science, applied math, and engineering concentrations, is currently a part of FAS. But the DEAS’s focus on “applied” knowledge makes the division’s mission subtly different from that of most College concentrations. Differences notwithstanding, DEAS continues to be an important portion of FAS. Up to now, however...
...Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS)—a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is home to hundreds of applied math, physics, computer science, and engineering faculty and students—will become its own school under a proposal to be voted on this fall, the University announced yesterday. In a surprise reversal, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, the current dean of DEAS, said he would nix his plans to step down next month and remain on staff to guide the school through its transition. If approved...
...example, a North Carolina school will now get credit if a student's scores improve from 40 to 65 (on a scale of 100) from third grade to fourth. Before this change, the school could get credit only if the entire segment of students - fourth-grade Hispanic students in math, for example - improved their scores. North Carolina estimates that about 40 of the 932 schools in the state that didn't show improvement in test scores under the traditional parameters of the law would be considered successful under the new rules...
...This change is one in a series of moves over the last year by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings intended to placate critics of NCLB, the education law passed in 2002 that requires states to test their students in math and reading in grades three through eight, and once more in high school. The law requires states to make lists of schools that score badly on state tests and allows students to transfer out of the worst schools. While the law passed with overwhelming majorities in Congress, many school superintendents, principals and teachers - as well as politicians - from across the country...
...lived up the hype, from either proponents or critics. National test scores have barely budged since it was instituted. At the same time, despite warnings from critics, the law hasn't turned all schools into testing factories, eliminated all music and P.E. classes so that schools can focus on math and reading tests, or sent hordes of students from bad schools into overcrowded good ones. And even as changes are made to answer states' concerns, the outlines of the law and the testing it has mandated seem here to stay. In fact, more tests are coming: No Child Left Behind...