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...biggest obstacles to action is overcoming the denial that such an attack could occur and the paralysis that comes from believing the job is too overwhelming to be done,” the report says. “It is a big job, no doubt. But it is also measurable and manageable and the world needs to know...
Standardized tests alone will not improve the education of this country’s children. Tests of reasonable length might be good as diagnostic measures—to pinpoint which students, classes or schools need extra help. But actual improvements in education can only occur when reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should...
While we can be pretty sure that medical errors occur with some frequency--nearly 100,000 deaths a year are caused by such errors, one survey reported--it is less clear that doctors or hospitals will voluntarily own up to their mistakes. In a study published in 1991, 76% of the doctors surveyed said they had not fully disclosed a serious error to one of their patients. And a separate survey conducted last year found that only 30% of patients affected by a medical error had been informed of the problem by the health-care professional responsible for the mistake...
...integral to Harvard advising. But preregistration will not alter the nature of those uninspired meetings; it will only shift them earlier—to times that are even more inconvenient for undergraduates. Under the proposal’s current time-table, the new study card signings will occur in the midst of midterms and term papers. And while Wolcowitz is right to point out that “all times of the year are busy,” the first week of classes is the least stressful and hence most productive time for serious advising meetings. (Notably, it is precisely...
...consequence of copyright fees. Likewise at the Coop, as Store Manager Scott Montgomery explained, preregistration will have no effect on prices. Better enrollment estimates could potentially affect whether textbooks sell out too quickly, but this concern is negligible. Montgomery estimated that with current prediction methods, textbook reorders only occur about five percent of the time, and when they do occur, it is just a matter of days before books are available—during the shopping period, they can often be replenished in a matter of hours...