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Committee members also discussed the need for more creativity in teaching math to children. Nat Stahl—representing the nonprofit math education organization, The Math Project—emphasized the need for math “to be a discussion of ideas rather than development of skills...
...There’s a need and a desire for this kind of thing,” says Maurer, who hopes the program will continue next semester...
...Hammonds, all students will be able to return to campus for College-led and student-initiated programming for the last eight days of J-Term. However, during the rest of Winter Break, Dec. 22 to Jan. 15, only “students with a recognized and pre-approved need to be on campus —including varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research and a limited number of other categories of students” will be allowed to stay in campus housing. Although we appreciate that some programming is better than none, it is still...
...However, this statistic is misleading in isolation. The only people allowed to stay on campus this past J-Term were already involved with a consuming activity, such as practicing a sport or writing a thesis. It seems fairly obvious that these thus-committed students did not need conceive of a need for additional programming. However, it does not follow that students who were off-campus this past Winter Break would not have appreciated additional programming, given the opportunity. In fact, this sub-group is the one which would most benefit from the College facilitating the J-Term experience...
...ElBaradei has yet to signal whether he'll allow the Islamists to join his coalition. But some say the support of the Brotherhood as a bloc would give any reform movement the spine it needs to stand up to a regime willing to get tough. Such an alliance would also greatly expand the grass-roots organizational reach of ElBaradei's coalition, which has thus far been unable to set up regional campaign offices or raise funds in a closely controlled political system. "The national coalition doesn't need Tagamma or the Nasserists," says Joshua Stacher, an Egypt expert at Kent...