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...apartment—and they advertise all of these wants with their Harvard portfolios and their pinstriped suits. Of all the transformations that Harvard students undergo during their time here, the most striking is their abandonment of ambition. Each freshman class, after all, is clotted with valedictorians, class presidents, math league champions, and serious athletes. There is a tacit consensus as early as freshman year that talking about these sorts of accomplishments is in very poor taste. So we’re all accomplished: Get over yourself. If you want to quietly work towards a four-point, fine, and bully...
...Seton ’06, the director of the Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE), an International Relations Council program that sends undergrads into Boston public schools to actually teach classes suggests: “Harvard could help support a program for each subject area so that, for example, math concentrators could have the opportunity to try teaching math once a week if they wished.” In supporting this sort of training, Harvardians could tailor their teaching to whatever they happen to excel (or be interested) in. The university also needs to build more bridges with local public...
Members also watched a presentation about the effectiveness of online CUE course evaluations, which were piloted this fall in German and math classes, as well as Freshman Seminars...
Gross asserted that online responses for his math classes were more helpful than paper responses...
...this day and age to believe that men and women differ in their basic competence for math and science is as insidious as believing that some people are better suited to be slaves and other masters,” Banaji wrote...