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...advisors, and Internet research on the qualifications, salary and duties for a range of jobs, students weed through options and select a career. During a PowerPoint presentation to classmates reporting on her career research, a girl explains that she's attracted to counseling, despite the high burnout rate and meager staring salary, because "people need someone to talk to about their problems and I think I'm good at listening and helping...
Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math--the focus of so much No Child Left Behind (NCLB) testing--is the meager minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here's what they...
...educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century. Right now we're aiming too low. Competency in reading and math-the focus of so much No Child Left Behind testing-is the meager minimum. Scientific and technical skills are, likewise, utterly necessary but insufficient. Today's economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might be called 21st century skills. Here's what they...
...third in a row for the Crimson to begin the season. Foul trouble and turnovers plagued Harvard throughout the contest. After leading by as much as 11 points in the first half, the Crimson allowed the Bobcats to slowly chip away at the lead until it clung to a meager 38-36 advantage going into halftime. The second half, as in previous games this season, saw Harvard continue on its downward slope. More turnovers and poor shooting allowed the opposition too many easy points, and the excessive foul trouble provided too many trips to the charity stripe—Quinnipiac...
Harvard can offer no reasonable defense of our meager and parsimonious Thanksgiving vacation. Tuesday and Wednesday lectures record infamously low attendance anyway, and the loss of barely three academic days is more than compensated by a restorative and relaxing Thanksgiving with your family at home. Harvard students may live away from home most of the year, but Thanksgiving is a time to be with family and loved ones, not in a dorm room in Cambridge...